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Wordwizard asked Jim Nelson:

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Jim Nelson Good questions. You're right, bridge daughters can't get pregnant and are otherwise indistinguishable from other girls. Your questions are one reason why parents are so protective of their bridge daughters: since the bridge is the surrogate for their child, they wouldn't want anybody to hurt or do violence to them.

The men at the camp certainly seem questionable, but the bridges are watched closely. One detail I believe I edited out of the book (for length) was that the two men don't live among the girls, but outside the camp.

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