“If the events that I have to recount to you seem like something out of a novel, blame it on my unhappy fate rather than my inclination” —Hortense Mancini Hortense Mancini was born in Rome...
One day, my dad looked at me, and then looked at my mom, and said: “It’s me or him. Choose.” I thought my mom would take my side, but I was so, so wrong.