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is the pain–point that mainly drives this project, but in designing her idea, Angela addresses an even more specific problem. Indeed, she wants to give commuters the chance to pass the time on the train on their way to work with a simple, fast and inexpensive read. Moreover, as the book/magazine must
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Diabolik is an ingenious and masked thief, protagonist of thefts of large sums of money and precious jewels. Despite being a criminal, Diabolik has his own ethics: just as Robin Hood “steals from the rich and gives to the poor”, Diabolik protects the weakest to the detriment of mobsters and
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Angela works all her life on
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was born, and Angela herself wrote the plot. The name is not accidental but is closely related to a chronic fact of some years before: on
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