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The Rosary
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Between prayers, as she says the rosary ("forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us"), an old woman refuses to pardon her newly widowed and destitute daughter.
Genre: short story
Length: 3,600 words
Translated from Italian (2012) by Juan LePuen
Author
Federico De Roberto
Italian writer, 1861-1927
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