What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? … - Erica Jong

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Erica Jong

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

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