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Originally from Charlotte, NC; Richmond, VA has been home for over 30 years. ADHD keeps his mind in flux, addicted to music, and impulsive. The heart of his talent is in writing scenes like painting with a brush. He's the elder Gilsdorf brother. Roy was his grandfather's name. ...more

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The Mysteries of Paris (Penguin Classics)

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The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

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“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

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