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Ej–Es NANCY KRESS Jesse, come home There’s a hole in the bed where we slept Now it’s growing cold Hey Jesse, your face in the place where we lay by the hearth, all apart It hangs on my heart…. Jesse, I’m lonely Come home —from “Jesse,” by Janis Ian, 1972 “Why did you first enter the Corps?” Lolimel asked her as they sat at the back of the shuttle, just before landing. Mia looked at the young man helplessly, because how could you answer a question like that? Especially when it was asked by the idealistic and worshipful new recruits, too ignorant to know what a waste of time worship was, let alone simplistic questions. “Many reasons,” Mia said gravely, vaguely. He looked like so many medicians she had worked with, for so many decades on so many planets…intense, thick-haired, genemod beautiful, a little insane. You had to be a little insane to leave Earth for the Corps, knowing that when (if) you ever returned, all you had known would have been dust for centuries. He was more persistent than most. “What reasons?” “The same as |
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