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They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Mother
Kingdom
Beautiful
Kingdoms
Back
Pass
Men
Mountain
Like
Looked
Hold
Told
Wept
Woman
Weep

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