It pained him to think how naive he had once been. - Michael Swanwick

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It really is a pity. Esme was so full of curiosity and enthusiasm when she was a child. She’d make a great biologist. But it was her misfortune to be born wealthy. She had dreams. But her parents had too much money to allow that.

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Still, it was no easy thing to flirt in German.

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You have to spell things out for the press—you can’t rely on them to know even the simplest things.

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