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February 1 - February 1, 2025
Man alone of living creatures has been given grief… and likewise ambition, greed and a boundless lust for living.
All the words he uses to describe her – lovely, delicate, naive – she takes as instructions rather than compliments. It doesn’t matter that she worked in a brothel, that she outwitted the most violent pimp in Pompeii, or that she could move mountains with her rage. This is not what her lover wants to see, so she hides it all.