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Category: Memoir

Dido and Aeneas, bravado, scandal and passion

Posted on 02/05/202606/05/2026 by Jen

Latin came up during a recent physiotherapy session. It turned out that both Marianne and I had studied Latin in high school, she in the Netherlands, I in Sydney. That day, I was lying face down looking through the hole in the treatment table, so I could only see her strong, brown, Birkenstocked feet moving…

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