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I thought it was Four Ways to Forgiveness. Is that a typo or is there really another story?

Shannon Appelcline There's another story. From the description of the ebook: Joined to them is “Old Music and the Slave Women,” in which the charismatic Hainish embassy …moreThere's another story. From the description of the ebook: Joined to them is “Old Music and the Slave Women,” in which the charismatic Hainish embassy worker, who appears in two of the four original stories, returns for a tale of his own. Of this capstone tale Le Guin has written, “the character called Old Music began to tell me a fifth tale about the latter days of the civil war . . . I’m glad to see it joined to the others at last.”(less)

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