ps- in my Oscar Wilde biography there's really quite a bit about Bosie and his dastardly adventures

in a letter to Robbie that he wrote when on holiday in Blidah he talks about all the boys he's had. But because Bosie couldn't speak arabic, he had a translator to translate Bosie's moderate French to Arabic so that he could communicate with the boys.
His favourite was a boy called Ali, who was 15 (a bit of an iffy age...

) but they had a big argument when Ali slept with a girl because Bosie didn't mind him sleeping with other boys, but hated the idea of 'his' boy sleeping with a girl.
He took revenge on Ali by saying that he had found a much prettier boy that he would leave him for, and according to Bosie's letter Ali reacted by throwing himself onto their bed and crying for two whole hours about how he was an orphan and if Bosie left him he would have no where to go.
Shortly after that letter had been sent, Bosie hurried off back to London to deal with family troubles.
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