My Best Shot

Your vision of Venice may not look like this, but this moment of peace captivated Allen S. Taylor of Diamond Bar, who was in Italy’s famed city of canals in 1984. “On a hot afternoon in August,” he wrote, “my wife and I shared with the gondolier that belief that even romance would profit from a cool moment in the shade.”

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