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									<div id="disp-quote-body">Temptation is one of many<br />
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refinement<br />
until extinction.<br />
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in its exercise<br />
and suggestion,<br />
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between distinction<br />
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										<div class="poem-analysis-item"><span class="poem-analysis-label">Closest metre</span><span class="poem-analysis-value">Iambic dimeter</span></div>										<div class="poem-analysis-item"><span class="poem-analysis-label">Characters</span><span class="poem-analysis-value">437</span></div>
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							<p class="author-bio">I am Canadian, born in Quebec city from an Italian Family. I have studied in french but wired in English. I speak three languages but still English is easier for me to have words and idea linked. I am a mother of 3 and have the freedom to day dream about Peter Pan and Neverland all day! I ve always loved to write, anything, but playing with words is obsessively satisfying. Enjoy.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biographies.net/search/Isabella%20Fava">more&hellip;</a></p>
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