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Poverty in the House of Amyclas
Poverty in the House of Amyclas

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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have . . .

The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…

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