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    "annotation": "<p>The quest for Desiderata starts in Rome in 1964, but soon leads to the German town of Trier, where Daisy and Contini continue their research. In AD 67 the Christians went through yet another period of persecution, and Desi found it hard to decide on who\u2019s side she wanted to be and what she intended to do with her life. Would she find love? Did she become a Christian?</p>",
    "description": "<p>The last days that Daisy Hayes spent in Rome in 1964 were quite  exciting. She and Father Contini went back to the crypt and made some  disturbing discoveries. Not about Desiderata herself, but about the  archaeologist who had investigated the place in the thirties. The quest  now led them to the German town of Trier, where they teamed up again in  the fall of that same year to continue their research.</p><p>In AD 67  things were looking good for Desi and the Pomponius family in their  beautiful domus: they lived like princes. But as her friends the  Christians went through yet another period of persecution, the blind  young woman found it hard to decide on whose side she wanted to be and  what she intended to do with her life. Would she ever find love?</p><p>So  both she and Daisy ended up trying to grapple with the greatest riddle  of all: \u201cWho are you really, Desiderata?\u201d And what\u2019s more, did she  become a Christian in the end?</p>",
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