"Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly."

Decision, Choice, Beauty, Life

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"Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly."

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"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."

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