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Science Fiction

sweetloukillbot

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15. Yeah, he only venerates YOUNG women

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #13)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 01:52 AM

Nov 2014

Once they're past 40 they're cast aside as worthless and pathetic. It really bugged me in Door Into Summer because it was unnecessary for the story - it was just him preaching about how he hated old women.

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