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One night, the lantern room flooded with moonlight, and Julian confessed, “I didn’t come here for the historical society, Eleanor. Leo wrote to me. He said you’d forgotten how to be loved. And I thought—no one who reads Rilke by a rain-streaked window should ever forget that.”