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Alpine darkness descended on Durkulin Castle like a death shroud wrapping a corpse. The subconscious thoughts of “temporary” castle resident John Stimpson and his recurring nightmares kept him from getting the rest he so desperately needed.
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John’s life recently had gone off the rails with no apparent explanation until he began digging deeper into his troubled ancestry. That led to the restless night in the ancient castle.
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He had come to the castle after tracing his family’s checkered history on the Ancestry website. On the website, John’s maternal great grandfather, Demetri Rudolphin, had written about battles at the castle during the Middle Ages.
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At first, those conflicts seemed too far removed from his experience to realistically relate to his life, but, while tracing his family roots John found pronouncements of his great grandfather about the “Great War of the Families” in areas of Europe that eventually became Germany and Austria.
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According to Demetri, feuds between the Rudolphin and Friedakendolf families had led to the passing of ancient curses from one generation to the next.
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John still felt far removed from such “voodoo” until he thought further about how his up-to-now ideal life had begun to descend into the toilet with no explanation.
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He had excelled in every pursuit of his life up to that time. Second in his
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