Carolina QuotesNafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Memory Of Earth (1992)
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- 1992
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