This brother wanted him to place his whole body in the water of life. No such honor had ever come to him; to… — Robert A. Heinlein

This brother wanted him to place his whole body in the water of life. No such honor had ever come to him; to the best of his knowledge and belief no one had ever before been offered such a holy privilege. Yet he had begun to understand that these others did have greater acquaintance with the stuff of life… a fact not yet grokked but which he had to accept.

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