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Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband

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The Murkiest Story I've Ever Told on This Show

This is going to be the murkiest story I've ever told on this show because it's the one I found the greatest variety of versions of. It's the era of arranged marriages, 17th century Italy. So not only are women incapable of leaving unhappy marriages, they don't even get to pick their husbands in the first place. They're basically auctioned off. Gaze like for luringly or whatever out of window because that's the only thing that they could do. There wasn't any TV there, like window, window, not fine door. If anything, it's an act of self defense because who knows what they were experiencing to?

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