What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
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the heads on the pikes may have spoken to him on the day he entered London - and he may well have heeded their warning.
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