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"I've been living inside A Midsuht's Dream my whole life and I never knew it," said Dorabella "That hat felt like coe planet"

"Well, I live inside The Tempest," said Alessandra "Trapped on an island and desperate to get off"

Dorabella laughed again "I'll ask your father to let us ride doith one of the shuttles and come back up with another How's that?"

"Excellent Thank you, Mother"

"Wait a minute," said Dorabella

"What do you mean?"

"You agreed too quickly What are you planning? Do you think you can sneak away into the woods and hide till I go off and leave without you? That will never happen, o without me If you try to run away,you back to me Do you understand?"

"Mother," said Alessandra, "the last time I ran ahen I was six"

"My dear, you ran away only a feeeks before we left Monopoli When you skipped school and went to visit your grandmother"

"That wasn't running away," said Alessandra "I came back"

"Only after you found out that your grandmother was Satan's "

"I didn't know the devil was dead"

"Married to her, can you iine he wouldn't kill himself?"

Alessandra laughed That's hoas done--you lay down the law, but then youyou

"We'll visit Shakespeare, and then we'll coet that"