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“Sometimes ‘fair’ is bigger than just you,” said the Archivist.…“Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone.”

— Seanan McGuire In an Absent Dream (2019)

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Source: Chapter 7, “Fly Away, Fly Away Home” (p. 94; ellipsis represents the elision of one sentence of description)
Work: In an Absent Dream, 2019
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