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Christy Huddleston in the early 1900s stands in stark contrast to the typical 19 year old girl in the early 2000s. Christy is daring and generous, her mentors are firm, loving and grace filled. At a vulnerable and maleable age she is led to great things by her intuition, heart and the people around her. How do we foster this independence and growth in a culture that prolongs institutional learning

Progressing through purgatorio is taking a stroll through the seven deadly sins and the implications in a soul seeking salvation. Dante is fairly passive in this process since he spends more time talking about the souls he meets as opposed to working towards burning off his own vice for the rewarded virtue.

“It came over me, as it had never done before, the relation between girls like those and the poetry of Virgil. If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry.”