Each has its own political party, its own cable-news sermonizers its own digital oracles, scandal-mongers, and data miners its own billionaire donors and advocacy groups its own economists and corps of scientific experts. Our country, it seems, is fast becoming two separate nations. A generation ago, it would have been unthinkable for one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in modern history, the Affordable Care Act, to be voted into law without a single Republican “aye” in either the House or the Senate or for a Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia, to say that he no longer reads either The New York Times or The Washington Post, because both are incurably biased or for the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties to get zero percent of the vote in some 150 precincts in New York and Philadelphia, as Mitt Romney did in 2012. Political life in America has been so intensely polarized for so long that we now accept the condition as permanent, even as the costs steadily mount. ASSOCIATED PRESS (PHOTOS) JACKIE LAY (ILLUSTRATION)
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Amore has built a loyal fanbase on social media that continues to grow. With her successful series about life and death, Heaven and Hell, Elisa S. In her free time she likes to read, swim, walk in the woods, and daydream. She’s now a full-time writer of romance and young adult fiction. Her all-time favorite writer is Shakespeare, but she also loves Nicholas Sparks. She dreamed up some of the novels’ love scenes while strolling along the canals in Venice and visiting the home of Romeo’s Juliet in romantic Verona. She’s wild about pizza and traveling, which is a source of constant inspiration for her. She lives in Italy with her husband, her son, and a pug that sleeps all day. She wrote the first book while working at her parents’ diner, dreaming up the story between one order and the next. Amore is the author of the paranormal romance saga Touched. Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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He robs her of almost everything she holds dear: her health, her wealth and what is left of her family. Her life becomes a dark, cold, lonely cage the day the devil takes her as his wife. Sometimes, life and love can follow the most obscure paths, just as they did for Elisa. Parental guidance: for 16+ Contains blood, nudity and dark themes.:The Night of Elisa - A Gothic Novella. Bound with 30+ pencil illustrations of ornaments, characters and objects and a unique layout. Its writing experimental, mixing influences of cinema, genre fiction and comic books. "And I got it, too, you bastard," she muttered. She'd cursed and screamed at him, telling him to save her bed, he'd get his doss money, telling him she'd earned it and drunk it three times over that day. The landlord's man had spotted her there, asked for his fourpence, and turned her out when she couldn't supply it. Two hours ago, she'd been sitting in the kitchen of a doss-house on Thrawl Street, penniless. 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