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"Does he?"

"He says everybody else has to work and work to get a glis' heads, but you could do it the very first time"

"I didn't realize I was all that unusual," said Ender

"They talk about it when you're not there Po talks about it with Papa"

"Interesting," said Ender He didn't sound like he felt flattered, or like he was acting ht of his unusual talent for talking with the gold bugs as a simple fact

When he thought about it, this ood at so, if you were born with it That would be as due, or pooping

Because he ith Ender, Abra felt free to say what he had just thought of, and Ender laughed "That's right, Abra So Why not be proud of it? Why not feel good about it? But so you were born with, that's just the way you are Do you mind if I quote you?"

Abra wasn't sure what heto write a scholarly paper? A letter to somebody? "Go ahead," said Abra

"SoI's," said Ender "I had no idea It's not talking, though It'swith it Like, here's er with it Or the sa, this is poisonous or I don't like the taste oryou get the idea"

"No words," said Abra

"Exactly"

"The way I see machinery," said Abra "I have to find words to explain it to people, but when I see it, I just know I don't think the s"

"It ," said Ender, "but that doesn't mean you can't hear"

"Exactly! Yes! That's right!" Abra almost shouted the words, and his eyes filled with tears, and he didn't even knohy Oryes he did No adult had ever knohat it felt like before

"I had a friend once, and I think he saw battles that way I had to think things through, the way the forces were arranged, but Bean just saw He didn't even realize that other people took longer to understand--or never did at all To him it was simply obvious"