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As They Say, When in Rome. . . No, Wait, Actually Don’t

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

November 3, 2023 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

cbr15 bingo Sex cbr15 passport Rome   You know what would have really helped me make sense of all this would have been a family tree.  This was worse than Russian novels, where everyone has at least four names and a nickname.  But these guys changed names whenever they felt like it, used a limited set to choose from (Nero?  Oh, not THAT Nero), divorced and hooked up depending on the politics of the moment, and let’s not even get into the suicides, forced and […]

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