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“We Have Put Into Your Hands a Secret That Has Been Kept With Care—and With Success, We Believe—for Five Hundred Years.”
(Post #10: The Historian, Chapters 45-54)
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“…Dracula Married Again…a Hungarian Woman…The Last of Them Married Into the Noble Getzi Family”
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“She Knew I Hated My Father And She Was Waiting For Someone Who Loved Him. As She Still Does Herself.”
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