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Oscar Wilde (playwright and novelist, 1854--1900) was married to Constance Lloyd, the mother of his two sons. His affair with Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, son of the Marquess of Queensberry, resulted in him being tried for 'gross indecency'. Th

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From: Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Date: 20080820
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My child,

Today it was asked to have the verdicts rendered separately. Taylor is probably being judged at this very moment, so that I have been able to come back here. My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.

I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wiser to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness!

Now I see that that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the ...

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