The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present. (Jack McDevitt)

The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.

Jack McDevitt

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