Word: olaf
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...Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne had been lovers. She describes the King of the Franks, who died in 814, as a "lusty" man who "loved to swim." As luck would have it, she says she met up with him again in this lifetime, reincarnated as the late Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme. She reports the two had an affair and though they "fit in every way," he was concerned about how the press would perceive their union. If journalists had known it was a relationship that had withstood 1,200 or so years, surely they would have been understanding...
...outrages veterans. It outrages lots of Americans. It is intended to. It is not difficult to sympathize with the anger. Vietnam outraged people, too - just as World War I outraged the poet e.e. cummings, who wrote, in "The Song of Olaf": "There is some s--- I will not eat/I will not kiss your f------ flag...