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conversing, and he asked:
- Are you single?
- I’m a widow,- she replied.
- I too am a widower,- he said, - with a little boy.
Do you know, by the way, that you bear a great
resemblance to a lady I knew in Palermo?
- How remarkable! But you know the old saying:
we all have seven look-alikes in this world.
To make it brief, within a week they were
married. Catarina got pregnant, and the story
crosses the time. In nine months she gave birth to
another baby boy, even handsomer than the first.
You can imagine how happy the prince was!
- My princess, what shall we name him?
- Genova, - she replied. And so the child was
baptized Genova.
Two months passed, and the prince felt the urge
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