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“What was the Phoenix in the end but a roof and walls? Much had happened beneath and within them-- happiness, discovery, death and love. But it was the people-- both in the kitchen and those they served-- who made the chocolate house what it was.”

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Book:The Chocolate Maker's Wife
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