So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next t…

Orson Scott Card
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2002). Ender's Shadow, p.141, Macmillan
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