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And so I departed this life, far from home. But whether I was home or not, I had had a good life. A somewhat shorter one than I had anticipated, but I had had the money, I had had the girls, and nobody told me what to do. Is there, really, anything else? Are you sure?
- Algis Budrys, Hard Landing, p.369 (in SF Gateway Omnibus)
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