Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About yo…

Orson Scott Card
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2002). Ender's Shadow, p.224, Macmillan
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2002). Ender's Shadow, p.224, Macmillan

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