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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Wives
Signs
Slavery
Population
Wife
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Willingly

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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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