Unlike your time, where masculine pride is propagandized to advance the war effort and certain arrangements of the family are idealized over others to encourage the repopulation of the ranks—your grandfather, for the limited time that you knew him, was preoccupied with making sure that you and your brothers had what he deemed appropriate appetites—the joining of these like bodies was not disparaged in the era of the Eighth Emperor, who was known to have had an expansive and welcoming taste when it came to the lovers he took to bed, and broadcasted such sentiments out through his tortoise
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