"All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of theuniverse, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been soclose and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, Ihad fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right.And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars."

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"All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of theuniverse, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been soclose and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, Ihad fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right.And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars."

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