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A Christmas Letter

by Robert Hellenga
Issue #123
Spring 2014
I was in Florence, Italy, when my father died. It was Easter Sunday and I was staying with old friends, the Marchettis, in their apartment near Piazza delle Cure, a quiet neighborhood on the north edge of town that you...

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