The Perfume Burned His Eyes. Michael Imperioli

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       acknowledgments

       about michael imperioli

       about akashic books

       to Victoria, for a love inconceivable

       to my children, for being my greatest teachers

      I’ve known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged. —from Marguerite Duras, The Lover