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“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”

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Book:Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
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Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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