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where I would climb to the zenith of maturity.None of that attracted me. I was more far interested in adventure and the treasures of the past. Historic glory shined so much brighter in my eyes; the present seemed empty.And so at the end of my sixth year, frustrated beyond endurance by my stubbornness, my father traded me to replica Movado 0604687 WoMen's watch another family, in another part of the galaxy, far from the Orion complex where my peoples were born.For the last three years, the system of eight planets around a minor yellow star-and in particular, the fourth, a dry, reddish desert world called Edom-became my home.
