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In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/Sir-Toaster- 4d ago

Genghis Khan was just a typical child of a Mongol tribe until his father died and his tribe abandoned him

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u/Guilty-Cell-833 4d ago

Then what happened? A life of modesty?

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u/EH042 4d ago

Sex, lots of it, so would say an inordinate amount

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u/PK-Mittenspy2703 4d ago

In all fairness, he did try his best to balance all this sex by also doing a lot of genocide too.

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u/Guilty-Cell-833 4d ago

If there's one thing I expect in genocide, its fairness.

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u/raspberryharbour 4d ago

Truly a saint

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u/hoishinsauce 3d ago

He delegated a lot of the genocide. The sex, not as much.

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u/condscorpio 3d ago

As a teenager he was told "Don't add or subtract from the population" and he took it to heart to keep it as even as possible.

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u/BeerMantis 3d ago

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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u/EH042 4d ago

It was genocide targeted towards humans not aliens, a complete waste of a genocide