Carolina QuotesWas it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 18.
- work
- Prentice Alvin (1989)
- year
- 1989
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