In early 20th century Italy, Leonarda Cianciulli’s own mother cursed her to a life of misery and a palm reader said she would outlive each of her children. As the years went on, it seemed that she was doomed for these fates. Leonarda, though, would do anything to keep her eldest and favorite son, Giuseppe, safe - even the unthinkable.
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