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Lois McMaster Bujold Twenty years of learning better. A good bit under Cordelia's Betan tutelage, but doubtless other life lessons and observations as well.

Some readers seem to process characters as going into stasis between moments on stage, stored in a prop box until needed, and get unduly confused when they grow and change between viewings as if they were real people with real, complex lives. (Some people do the same with their family members, so it isn't a phenomenon confined to fiction.)

Ta, L.

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