She turned to intimate friends, such as Walter Berry, Henry James and Bernard Berenson, and, in her late 40s, fell into an all-consuming love affair with the dodgy and bisexual Morton Fullerton.

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Over the next few days, in between checking to see if Fumiko had left her room, I allowed the twenty pages to become my obsession, the cynosure of my day-to-day life, as all-consuming as a new love affair.

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The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, a centenarian, reaches to the world beyond for this story of mad love and self-consuming art, set in the rustic realms of the Douro wine country.

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What started out as a labor of love has grown into a consuming passion.

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With branching chat options and cinematic scenes that need to be animated adding in a slew of new characters to cover every single love interest option is daunting and undoubtedly going to be a far more intricate and time consuming process than they imagined.

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