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Hekate

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41. And if you were Irish, it depended in where your ship docked. North or South, the Irish fought.

Reply to B2G (Reply #38)

Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:10 PM

Aug 2017

I'm of Irish descent, mostly. It felt strange to learn that.

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