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Volume one ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman forces and the corresponding end of the East Roman (or Byzantine) empire. Only a few decades before Portuguese ships had begun to venture out into the Atlantic Ocean
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“The triggering event and resulting shame is worse than being rejected because rejection assumes a path by which to return to acceptability. The fear involved in shame is of permanent abandonment, or exile. Those who see our reprehensible core will be so disgusted and sickened that we will be a leper and an outcast forever.”
― The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
― The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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