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Letter From a Mistress

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19980416
Author:Shai Tsur

Shai Tsur
Jerusalem Post
04-16-1998
THAT SAME FLOWER: Floria Aemilia's Letter to Saint Augustine by Jostein Gaarder. Translated by Anne Born. New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux. 168 pp. $18.

In his Confessions, St. Augustine's account of his search for God, the fourth-century theologian mentions a woman with whom he lived for some years, a woman who bore him a son. After living with her for several years, Augustine left his mistress and eventually entered the Christian Church. Very little is known of this woman, not even her name. Augustine used the account of his romantic life as an ...

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