"What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give lit...
She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~
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She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
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