LOVE & DEATH....

...On the Road in Volterra, Italy.

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LOVE & DEATH

“You don’t know what you can do until you have to do it,” she says, looking at me across the cafe table, her eyes intense and ancient. “Some things are unbearable. Until you have to bear them.” Her knotted fingers wrap around a cup of tea, knuckles white. She’s t…