Clearly, I'm behind the curve...

[Wilson Gray]

WRT this structure:

"… Pope Benedict XIV _conferred him with tonsure_ …"

found in W:pedia.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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