The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6
“Aren't family squabbles jolly fun? Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.”
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
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