It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of ev… - Connie Willis

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It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.

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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an American science fiction writer.

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