“Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you’re never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.”

—  Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

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