My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola. ✨ Fictional character: William Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Love, 1998.
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- Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? ✨ William Shakespeare (1880). The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest a … ▶
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