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Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of albania, hana alba rohrwacher looks to. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the sworn virgin. But promises are hard to keep and love may find her whether she wants it to or not. Once a sworn virgin, she is literally sworn to virginity, but she is granted the rights that an albanian man would be.
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