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"Oh, when I'm around you, I'm not allowed to exhale?"

"Don't make me pinch your nose and stuff cookies in your mouth"

"Mother, I can't control what he does"

"But you can control what you do"

"Ender isn't Adan"

"No, he isn't He's a boy With no experience at all A boy who can be led and helped and shown"

"Shohat, Mother? Are you suggesting that I do so physical?"

"Darling sweet fairy daughter of mine," said Dorabella, "it's not for you and it's not for ood"

Alessandra rolled her eyes She was such a teenager

"Eye-rolling is not an answer, darling sweet fairy daughter"

"Mother, people who are doing the ood"

"But in this case, I'an and I have become very close Very very close"

"Are you sleeping with him?"

Dorabella's hand flew up, prepared to strike, before she even knehat she was doing But she caught herself in tirandmother"

Alessandra's voice shook a little "When you said you were very very close I wondered if you were i--"