Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?<br><br>These are questions newly minted Doctor Marco Sartori d’Argenzio must face when he and his partner Danilo Rosati celebrate Marco’s completed residency and Danilo’s most recent PhD with a vacation at Marco’s father’s home in the Duchy of Aragoni. There Marco learns about his family’s legacy: his father is more than two thousand years old, and he can expect to live just as long.<br><br>Marco inherits his uncle’s title amidst adventure and danger, but it breaks his heart to realize that he’ll live only to see the man he’s loved for a decade grow old and die. However, there is hope: Danilo is studying the unique DNA of Marco’s family in hops of discovering the secret -- because Danilo has no intention of leaving Marco alone for what could be forever.

The Path to Forever

“It shouldn’t be difficult to acquire one and use it for our own purposes. We had a conversation about Spoleto, and I want to hear your ideas.”


“First, let me ask you a question. Somewhere within the family businesses we surely have computer professionals, don’t we?”


“In many companies, in many places.”


“Ask your computer people to recommend a good software package for mapping. The person using it should be able to sit at a computer and flag every location in which he has resided over the years. If you, and as many of the older members of the family as possible, were to use such software and produce individual maps, the maps could ultimately be overlaid on each other. An individual map would indicate only a list of places, whereas a combined map might well reveal that several family members have been in a particular place at different times. Are you following me?”


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