"I go crazy from love. I have never loved with so much loyalty. You are the star that sparkles between the rays and you adorn my poor heart with infinite madness."
"We live incognito, full of love, punished by not being able to give it free expression..."
"How I suffered last night when in your house they made that frenzied din, "Eh, Federigo! Write to me!"
The words were written 100 years ago by my grandfather and cherished by my grandmother for decades after his death. When they were passed on to me, they not only inspired my first novel, Dancing on Sunday Afternoons, but also gave me an understanding of why a fascination with language, in all its beauty and passion and mystery, is in my blood.
Have you ever received a precious gift that changed everything for you?
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