On the State of the Epilogue

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I'm not certain when the first epilogue appeared in romance.  You can't blame it on the category books because I've read hundreds of old time categories and epilogues were far rarer in the "olden days."  I think, but don't know for a fact, that the epilogue became de rigeur in single title books.  Back in 2009, I ran a poll about epilogues and the great majority of readers who answered the poll loved epilogues. In the comments, though, readers agreed that the baby filled epilogue wherein...