Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps — Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps — Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps — Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps — Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps — Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
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Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.

— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
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