{"product_id":"the-girl-from-the-hermitage","title":"The Girl from the Hermitage","description":"\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"e22c0764-0c25-0da6-65b5-6460f1c68ccd\"]' data-w-id=\"e22c0764-0c25-0da6-65b5-6460f1c68ccd\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"aadbe8fa-9e25-20d2-2023-16ea5a6d2880\"]' data-w-id=\"aadbe8fa-9e25-20d2-2023-16ea5a6d2880\"\u003eGalina was born into a world of horrors. 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