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

Father exited the elevator at the ground floor, and Trevor led us down to the parking garage, through it, and out a side door that opened into a small covered waiting area next to the trolley tracks.


“Every tram that stops here,” he said, “eventually winds up in the central plaza next to the train station, and the historic shopping district begins on the street opposite the station—the one that dead-ends into the plaza, and is marked for pedestrians only. That’s where the most interesting shops and cafés are located; unfortunately, it’s also the part of the city most frequented by tourists.”


“At the moment that would describe the two of us,” Dani said.


“Yes, I suppose it would,” Trevor said. “I’ll look for your call sometime between noon and one.”


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