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Crimson Petals: Vlad the Impaler's Gentle Echoes
This book is written by Someone who has been protected and visited by Vlad the Impaler since age 2. I am that Someone. My name is Amy called Emmy by My immigrant GrandFather or Katha by My older immigrant relatives. What I write is the…
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…And so, the convent became her fate. A place where she could be kept from causing further "trouble," a place where her influence would wane, where her spirit could be slowly, irrevocably dimmed. It was a cruel irony, she thought, to be cloistered in the name of protection, to be separated from the very person who had sworn to keep her safe. The silence of the convent was a deafening testament to the battles fought and lost, to the fragile nature of power, and to the devastating consequences of fear. She was the Mother of Mihnea Cel Rau, and her gilded cage was the price of love in a world that did not always understand its complexities.