Michael was the embodiment of love to me and millions of other fans across the globe who grew up wanting nothing more than to love him back.

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But that love led him to headlong support of a French Revolution that proved more demonic than liberating.

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The result brought him back to earth, reminding him that Italians vote PdL for more complex reasons than blind love of its leader.

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As Christians and humans, we all love each other and, through him, I've learned more tolerance for people different than me.

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He loses his wisdom and eventually his kingdom when the dragon Smaug, a creature even more enslaved to the love of gold than the dwarf, takes it from him.

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