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The Amalfi Curse

by Sarah Penner (Goodreads Author)

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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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― Thomas Jefferson

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― Marilyn Monroe

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