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"Exiting the now empty train, I tug my suitcase onto the platform...and stride through the tumult of the station, amidst vendors peddling water taxis and hotels, travlers in the anguishes of arrival and departure. ... The fact that it is all true, that Marlena did run away to Venice to be with her lover makes this book one of the most romantic I have ever read. In the book she questions if, at middle age, she and Fernando are too old to be so impetuous. ...