“I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.” “One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?”
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 11.
- work
- Heartfire (1998)
- year
- 1998
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