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Monday, December 6, 2010

First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal

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"Young lady," Louise snapped at Dr. Connelly like one of her own children, "I’ve lived through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Collapse. I lived through race riots, saw us put men on the moon, the Spanish Flu, AIDS, the Titanic, Suffrage and the Internet. I’ve raised five children and buried two, got twenty-three grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren with more on the way. And you have the nerve to say I don’t understand history?"