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Dancing in the moonlight

HOW many have danced under the moon’s spotlight or held hands, looked up into the heavens and promised each other the earth? ‘I love you to the moon and back’ might be a common phrase, but, beware, that which shines brightly does not necessarily bring good fortune. Indeed, in , Shakespeare advises that we should be wary of ‘the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb’. And, in , that: ‘It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than

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