Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of…

Orson Scott Card
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Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of. ✨ Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1990.
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Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of. ✨ Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1990.

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