"Here he was, not quite twenty-five years old, and he was going to have to make a new life for himself. A host of options lay before him, but, tipsy with Chablis and sunshine, at the moment all he could truly feel was a powerful sense of loss and uncertainty. All the routes to his previous self—the self that had tried to survive as a loner in Fort Walton Beach—were blocked, and he did not know which new path to choose. “Ciao,” he said again, and this time he was not talking to his mother."
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Chapter 30 “Marakoi, Zarakal” (p. 315; closing words)
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Michael Bishop
Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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