Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft a…

Patrick Ness
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Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)
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