‘Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria.’ Well, guys this is the opening statement of the book ‘Eleven Minutes’ by Paulo Coelho. The author says that this is a story of a prostitute called Maria from Brazil. Contrastingly, no one is born as a prostitute; well it is a story of a young girl who for the sake of love and material happiness gets into the nasty profession of prostitution. Eleven Minutes introduces us to innocent Maria, who lives in a small town of Brazil. Well, despite this, she is full of aspirations and her very first dream, like most other girls in the world, is to have a beautiful husband, a seafront home, a few cute children, and of course all this should be in the total realms of being highly rich. She is a dreamer but also believes falling in love. When she’s as young as a school girl, she fell in love with a shy boy from neighborhood. They couldn’t initiate initial conversation because of some pre-emptive hesitation. Well, Maria waits f...
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