The Palatine, Forum, and Chris' Birthday!
September 6th 2012 I give. I have tried writing this like four times and inevitably fall asleep in the same spot EVERY TIME. Must mean that whatever I was writing was both ill conceived and not very interesting. Solution: total rewrite.
So, Sunday was a day of wandering the Forum and the Palatine hill. We saw the temple of Jupiter, the first iteration of the Senate, etc. etc. It was all crumbly, impressive,
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