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A Small Hotel in Florenceย
Two twin-like English sisters ran the place.ย When we checked in, one asked, โIs it the case . . .?โย The other finished, โItโs your honeymoon?โ ย ย It was. They handed...
All Bright Things
At Chartres, we see the stained glass windows slumpfrom centuries of gravity, becomingthicker glass at bottom than the top,like waterfalls of slow and liquid sand. In Athens, temples, sculpture,...