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Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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