Carolina QuotesMaybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Ships Of Earth (1994)
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- 1994
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