Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday

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           This excerpt is from Forty Years in a Day . The scene takes place in Italy, 1906. Angela must tell her husband, Alfredo, that their daughter has left for America.
 
        She held on to the back of a chair for support and looked down at the table to avert his gaze. Her heart was pounding hard inside her chest, and she took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down. “There’s no easy way to tell you this,” she finally said.
       “What is it, Angelina?” he said, heaving a sigh of slight impatience.
       “I gave Victoria our savings so she could go to America and be with Dominick. She’ll be safe with her brother. He’ll take care of them.” As she spoke she saw her husband’s face twist into a knot of disbelief and rage, and panic descended upon her like darkness on a moonless night. “She was miserable. She was so unhappy…and the children. Believe me, Alfredo, it’s the only way they could get away from him.”
       Slamming his hand to his chest, he demanded, “Where are they?”
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