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I GAVE IT AWAY: Days and Nights at Vinegar Hill Theatre Entwining the story of Ann Porotti's coming of age as a businesswoman with the town building of Charlottesville, Virginia, I Gave It Away may be one of the books for the ages about the radical changes that have happened since the 1960s in the lives of women. Porotti finds a home for her independent movie theatre in 1973 and then spends thirty years showing over two thousand films while forwarding the renewal of a dying downtown. Along the way she gathers to herself and her children a rich community of friends, lovers, and--finally--a husband that sticks. Porotti believed she had the right and the power to see, to taste, to live, to buy--and to give it away.

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Ann Porotti's I Gave It Away is as unforgettable and erotically charged as many of the movies that shaped her life and career as the owner of an independent movie house. This singularly brave and uncompromised sequence of recollections, from an Italian-American coming-of-age, through turbulent romances, to unforeseen exhaustions and rewards of staying the course as a savvy business woman. Porotti's writing makes it all matter. I Gave It Away is a celebration of just how much a person can actually do and feel in a life. Plus, it's full of movies! --Howard Norman, author of Next Life Might Be Kinder

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