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Destination Rome

Destination Rome

And Portrait Chapter 2

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Man, it’s good to be back in the travel game even if it’s only to Italy after ten months of nursing my wounds on the home front.

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Portrait

Chapter 2

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I inhale a deep breath of the salt water that surrounds us. I wish I could see it. But I sort of don’t wish either. It’s as though I’m enjoying seeing things with my mind rather than with my eyes. And having seen what a single grenade can do to a man up close and personal, I’d much rather be blind to reality. But don’t tell that to Margo. Margo is intent on making the blind mouse see again.

“Come on, Nick,” she says. “I’m serious. Feel this one now. Play right.”

“Who said I was playing wrong?”

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