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Mary Harden -- April 17th, 2012 at 12:17 pm

I love this. I was in Rome a couple of weeks ago and loved all the information they gave us. I do believe our guide told us Swiss Guards can only be in service for two years. I loved when they stopped and saluted a Priest. That was very cool.

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