title: Amare: A True Italian Love Story
author: Sheila Wright
description: Sheila Wright won the 2006 Accenti Magazine award for "The Nature of Italy", an adapted excerpt from Amare. Her story also appeared in Travelers' Tales: 30 Days in Italy. Sheila lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and two sons where she teaches French and English and facilitates a writers' group.
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual locales, organizations, or
  persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  Love and Mistletoe Copyright © 2019 by Dawn Brower
  
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  For my Elizabeth Evans. I know you’ve been waiting on Luca’s story for several
  months now. I’m sorry it wasn’t a bazillion pages so you could stay with him a
  lot longer. Hope you enjoyed him either way…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > > Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of
  > love.
  
  > > > > > HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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