Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones

Margaret Atwood
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

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