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  1. Thomas Lindblad
    A familiar situation for those of the older generation, whether on an individual level or in something resembling a partnership. Depicted with a feeling for realistic detail and honest emotions. I'm getting to like Alex more by every chapter I read. Without perhaps realizing it himself, Neil requests more patience than Alex might be able or willing to provide.
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    Song and Sex

    Thomas Lindblad commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Song and Sex

    Very nice chapter with a discrete but decisive turn of events in a way familiar to many of us, I think. I just joined this story but I enjoy it very much and look forward to catching up with the later chapters.
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    Epilogue

    Thomas Lindblad commented on Thomas Lindblad's story chapter in Epilogue

    Thanks, very good to hear!
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    Epilogue

    Thomas Lindblad commented on Thomas Lindblad's story chapter in Epilogue

    Thank you for your nice comments!
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    I am very sad. Father has passed away. I am writing this because Teacher William told me mourning becomes easier to handle if you write down what you are going through. It happened very fast. Father fell off his horse in the forest. He was unconscious when he came home on a stretcher. Two days later he died. He was thirty-nine years old. According to Mister Nils, the cause of the fall lay not with him or the horse. Father was a very good rider. Mister Nils thinks something broke down
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    In the year I was to reach the respectable age of thirty-eight, my contact with Carl Oscar grew more intensive. This had more to do with his age than mine. He was quite big for a boy of twelve years, just as tall as I had been at thirteen. All of a sudden, he wanted to pursue conversations in an adult tone with me. His choice in that respect was limited. Playmate Nisse was three years younger and suddenly deemed ‘too childish’, whereas William too rigidly stuck to his role as a teacher. Magdalen
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    William indeed changed quickly once he felt surrounded by friends who shared his secret. He deliberately kept his parents in the background. A vicar in the Lutheran Church in 1829 is not likely to have been very understanding vis-a-vis a son discovering he is gay. Göran is 37 and the father of sons. A fatherly understanding of William's situation comes more natural to him now (and he does not neglect his own personal needs).
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    I’m getting old,’ I complained towards the end of my thirty-seventh birthday. ‘Come on,’ Nils said decisively. ‘You’re as old as you feel.’ We were the last persons left in the Yellow Salon, seated in the comfortable sitting area with furniture in Empire style. It had been a festive evening. Carl Oscar and Stellan had made drawings for me and Carl Oscar had told me he had helped his little brother. William was by rare exception invited to join the family circle. He had given me a book
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    Very nice to hear! I always found the early nineteenth century a very exciting period in Swedish history. Swedish society was on the verge of transformation from the old feudal society to modernity. Indeed an often neglected period in teaching history at school.
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    I continued to maintain an intensive correspondence with Max. Halfway through the summer of 1828, he wrote me from Vienna. He was there because of a visit by King Ludwig of Bavaria to the Habsburg court. Apart from notes about ‘nice young men’, he passed on some gossip that he thought might interest me as a Swede. “You won’t guess who is screwing around here. A certain Prince Gustaf von Wasa who claims he should have become King of Sweden. He brags about being engaged to the daughter of the King
  11. Thomas Lindblad
    True. It can be construed as a subtle hint that the end of the story is drawing near. We'll see.
  12. Thomas Lindblad
    Carl Filip’s invitation surprised me. Due to circumstances, we had not met for two years and only maintained contact by occasional letters. “We would like to receive you at Toftegave after all this time,” he wrote. It was indeed a long time ago, twenty years to be exact, since I visited the fortress of the Tofte clan. More importantly, what should I understand under ‘we’? In the old days, that would mean the twins Carl Filip and Sofia. Did he now refer to himself and Stefan? My contact with Stef
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    Things became a lot more lively on the top floor of the manor after Stellan had outgrown cradle and crib, and moved into Carl Oscar’s room. They still differed too much in age to be able to play together, but Carl Oscar took pride in looking after his little brother. He taught him to walk more steadily and did a lot of talking with him. I hired a girl to serve as a nanny. Her name was Ulla and she was seventeen years old and very blond. Wisely, I had asked Nils to do the selection and he in turn
  14. Thomas Lindblad
    I hope so too. One must not forget that he and his likes at that time belonged to a highly privileged class in society where justice may turn out to be operating in a selective way .
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    Very true. He faces challenges of the most varied kind. But sad and depressing events may also evaporate as new things happen.
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    You are not alone in cherishing such hope.
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    Good question. How can our Count continue his association with Stefan after getting such dramatic news? What attitude can he choose? He cannot continue as before as if nothing had happened nor can he break off the contact completely considering that it is embedded in a web of family relations. It is a dilemma. One of several challenges he faces.
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    The death of Rutger left its mark on my daily life for a long time. I missed his frivolous nature, even his silly jokes. Above all his childish affection towards me. Christmas celebrations, half a year after the terrible event, fell through as Mother and Magdalena had to go to Öja to relieve Aunt Augusta from her loneliness. I stayed behind with my two boys and sat alone with Birger and my aunt Albertina on Christmas Eve. Fortunately, Nils came around to enjoy a good glass. He was the one who su
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    Chapter 31

    Thomas Lindblad commented on Josh Aterovis's story chapter in Chapter 31

    Thanks for a wonderful story! I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Beautiful ending.
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    History repeated itself in the Spring of 1824. While waiting, I again fell prey to the almost unbearable tension that instantly vanished as soon as I held a newly born little boy in my arms. The cradle was back in our bedroom and its inhabitant made his presence known in a loud voice. Carl Oscar came around looking out of curiosity and shyly asked if he could hold his little brother for a moment. Magdalena in the meantime again retired to Mother’s room in a depressed mood. The guests were t
  21. Thomas Lindblad
    The prospects are good for the young Count and Bavarian Max, but distance remained a huge problem in those days before trains or cars, let alone airplanes. Communications too in the absence of telephones, not to speak of internet. Much opportunity for beautifully crafted love letters.
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    The year 1823 brought the follow-up to the Grand Tour of Oscar, myself and Rutger. The two of us had returned home from Eichstätt while Oscar continued to Italy with part of our company. When returning to Sweden, he again stopped in Eichstätt for his engagement to Josephine. Now everybody was awaiting her arrival in Sweden and their wedding, the first royal wedding in Sweden in a quarter of a century. The invitation for the festivities on 19 June were addressed to myself, my spouse and brother-i
  23. Thomas Lindblad
    All details about Prince Oscar's journey to European courts in 1822 stem from an authentic source. I only left out the Prince continuing to Italy to meet with European statesmen and visit ancient ruins. The Count's agreement with Rutger offered a modus to find and give support in a friendship with somebody his own kind without obligations or expectations in terms of a sexual relationship. Like buddies in today's gay scene.
  24. Thomas Lindblad
    Nice to hear. In fact this episode was inspired by something I experienced myself in the 1990s in Australia. You are very right. Some things do not change fundamentally over time.
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    I entered the fourth decade of my life at an unlikely location. I was sitting in a German ale house in Hanover. Rutger raised his tankard of beer high above his head. ‘Cheers Göran,’ he shouted. ‘Hoe does it feel not to be young anymore?’ ‘It’s not so bad at all. Thirty is not the end of life.’ By conventional measure I was firmly settled as an estate owner, a husband and a father. Yet inside me, youthful cravings for genuine love were burning. For Rutger, it was easy talking; he stil
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