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The True Love of Caligula's Life
The true love of caligula's life, if you believe the more sensational roman writers, was his favorite sister, drucilla. In fact, it's rumored that he was having sex with all three of his sisters. When drucilla died in her late twenties, caligula was inconsolable. He was practically catatonic for days. To observers, it appeared like he was mourning a lover rather than a sibline. More generous historians have asserted that those details were just character assassination invented after the fact. But honestly, who knows? By his mid twenties, Caligula was already outdoing even the worst excesses of his hated great uncle tiber
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