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CHAPTER 26: Rain, Regret, and Giovanni

Autor: Vee Okon
last update Data de publicação: 2026-02-17 22:40:23

Scarlett's POV

"My grandmother", Tomasso continued at full volume, somehow navigating impossibly narrow streets while maintaining eye contact with me in the rearview mirror, "she used to say that Florence streets are like the veins in your body, all connected, all alive, all going somewhere important! Ha! She was a wise woman, God rest her soul, though she did burn the polenta every Sunday without fail for sixty years! Sixty years! How do you burn polenta for sixty years?"

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