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Alicia Dara
Oct 02, 2023
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A young groom married an even younger bride beside a rushing river in a small town in Italy, on a gorgeous summer afternoon in 1995. The bride, an American tourist in her early 20s, went for a long walk on the morning of the ceremony. She didn’t really know the man she was marrying. They had met randomly in a cafe in Rome the month before. But he was so…

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