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"Everything I do is for you!"

"Nothing is for ine you had, the one that doesn't exist, the perfect, happy child that was bound to result fro the exact opposite of your mother in every way Well, I'm not that child And in your mother's house, the electricity is on!"

"Then go live there!"

"She won't let me!"

"You would hate it Never able to touch anything Always having to do things her way"

"Like going off on a colony ship?"

"I signed up for the colony ship for you"

"Which is like buying me a supersized bra Why don't you look at who I am before you decide what I need?"

"I'll tell you what you are You're a girl who's too young and inexperienced to knohat a woman needs I'm ten kilomete

rs ahead of you on that road, I knohat's coet you what you'll need to make that road easy and smooth, and you knohat? In spite of you, I've done it You've fought reat job with you You don't even kno good a job I've done because you don't knohat you could have been"

"What could I have been, Mother? You?"

"You were never going to be me," said Mother

"What are you saying? That I would have been her?"

"We'll never knohat you would have been, e? Because you already are what I made you"

"Wrong I look like whatever I have to look like in order to stay alive in your hoer to you A stranger that you intend to drag off into space without even asking o They used to have a word for people you treated like that They called them slaves"