<span>A sudden turn of fortune allows Farquhar to escape and make a mad dash to his far away home to embrace his wife again. Then the ending of the "occurrence" tells a surprisingly different story, a story of a successful hanging.
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I believe it is somewhere in europe but I'm not positive just look it up
The best way to rewrite this sentence to avoid duplication is "Selena was surprised when she attempted to duplicate a copy of a dish she learned in culinary school."
A surprise by definition is unexpected, so it's a bit redundant to say an unexpected surprise. Also, saying culinary twice isn't necessary. It is better to just use it to describe the school and from there it can be inferred that the dish is culinary.
