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‘A Fight for Love and Glory’: Lessons From ‘Casablanca’

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‘A Fight for Love and Glory’: Lessons From ‘Casablanca’
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the classic film “Casablanca.” Rick, Humphrey’s character, sacrifices Ilsa to his romantic rival for the good of the World War II effort. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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Sometimes love blindsides us.

We glance at a woman in a café and listen to her speaking with her friend, and she sweeps us away. We open a book by an unfamiliar author, and from the first few sentences we’re enthralled. We taste a cup of tea we’ve never tried, and we’re hooked.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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