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Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Sydney
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Carmelina Marchetta
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Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.
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The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
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And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.
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