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Better for you
by Joe De Matteo

Solid

It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck.
It should.

When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says, 'I never loved you,' it should kill you instantly.

You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know..."

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At points it seems as if it may be starting on its way to greatness, building to something monumental even, in a literary sense, that is.  But it always falls short. 

Then you realize that it's real, more real than literature, more real than a great story, real like real life; foolish like real people are and sad and happy, and embarrassing. With life going on in so many lives in so many directions, swirling around the Frances as she tries to put a new life together.  And in it's reality, within the layers of sadness and failure, new love and lost love, forbidden love and trivial love making, satisfaction and lack of fulfillment, it becomes a wonderful story.

 Under The Tuscan Sun is a story worth witnessing.  It's the story of one of those people you see passing you in the street.  But the street is in a very beautiful place.

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