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When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

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Guy Gavriel Kay
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 7
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