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Eight-year-old Milan doesn't understand death. His friend Stella claims to know everything about death. She frightens Milan with stories about the soul thief, soulless people, and rotting wounds. Milan becomes so panicked that he no longer dares to trust anyone, not even his own mother. Eventually, Milan's mother finds out what he is struggling with.
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After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.

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