What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.
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Frances Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.
Frances It's market day in Cortona — the piazza is an on-going party — and everyone is invited.
Frances In Italian, the literal translation of "to give birth" — "dare alla luce" — is: "to give to the light".
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