Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Ye…

Orson Scott Card
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Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2010). Ender's Game, p.136, Macmillan
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