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Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati

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Castra Faronelli - The Greatest of All Castrati

Castra faronelli was given what would have been the g d p of a decent sized country, like unbelievable wealth. He was hired to sing to the mad king philip the fifth of spain, to ease histe melancholy. A lot of them worked as diplomats, ministers of various sorts. And in spain and italy, many of them were acted as spies. They ended up in a position very close to what an ex man is doing in the world, in the fictional universe of marble comics.

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