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Mortality My Mistress

Mortality My Mistress

My declaration will be absolute

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Jun 05, 2023
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I wrote this piece while staying at Cliveden House, in the south of England by the river Thames, a place infamous for illicit sexual liaisons in the time of Charles the Second and his close friend, the Duke of Buckingham. The tradition carried on into the nineteen-sixties with the Profumo affair and the first meeting there of that government minister an…

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