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I tell him the latest news about my older sisters, one a veterinarian, the other applying for a business degree, and Gil asks about my mother, whose birthday he’s remembered. But what had made Azazruk gasp, and others too when they saw thecreature, was its face, because it resembled precisely the face of a bewhiskeredold man, one who had enjoyed life and aged gracefully. Not haul it all the way fromMoscow. tely surrounded by protecting mountains, they proceededto unload the material required for the building of a major fort.

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