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Until Jia, he realized, he had never met a woman who truly became his friend.
Kuni that sounds horrible
If someone had informed him that men were dying every day in the Islands for lack of a cup of rice, he would have been surprised. “Why do they insist on eating rice? Meat is so much better!”
The children seemed to require so much of her attention that she sometimes thought of them as akin to those legendary wraiths in the Gonlogi Desert who sucked travelers’ blood until they fell down as empty husks.
