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Speaking of Byrons, the Shelleys were very well acquainted with one Lord Byron, and it was during the 1816 summer that never was (due to an immense eruption of an Indonesian volcano the year before), they vacationed together at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in Switzerland and produced not only Mary's seminal "Frankenstein", but John Polidori (Byron's physician) also wrote the first vampire novel "The Vampyre".[1]

As for our own Byron, no one ever thinks that they are fated to become someone else's Cautionary Tale, but here he is. You'd think a fellow with a namesake like Byron would more familiar with this phenomenon.

[1] https://www.history.com/articles/frankenstein-true-story-mary-shelley

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