This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private… — Alastair Reynolds
This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate.
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