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George III: the tyrant who lost America?

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What Is Porperia?

Porferia is a blood disease, the term that gives you a horrible, horrible disease. The more i learnt about it, the am the more ghastly it sounded. It's aa disease that puts you into a fever that looks almost exactly like a madness. But but it isn't madness. He was pretty much totally incapacitated whilst he e had it badly. E as sort hofe held against him morally, effectively, for two centuries. And now we live in an era which does not stigmatize mental illness.

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