“I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.”

—  Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

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