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But you love books, then,_ Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.__h, yes,_ Lestat said. __ometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.___hat a strange thing to say at your age,_ she laughed.__o, but one can feel desperate at any age, don__ you think? The young are eternally desperate,_ he said frankly. __nd books, they offer one hope _- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.
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But you love books, then,_ Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.__h, yes,_ Lestat said. __ometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.___hat a strange thing to say at your age,_ she laughed.__o, but one can feel desperate at any age, don__ you think? The young are eternally desperate,_ he said frankly. __nd books, they offer one hope _- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.
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