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Theme: surrogate relationships

Dracula / Paternal Loss

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg) | Themes: surrogate relationships, grief, inheritance, class disparity, love | Source: Project Gutenberg | Published: 2026-02-23

Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either fath...