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“Ma said Bahadur's ma was unlucky in marriage but was lucky in work, and that everyone had something going right and wrong in their lives--their good or bad children, kind or cruel neighbors, or an ache in the bones that a doctor could cure easily or not at all--and this was how you knew the gods at least tried to be fair.”

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Book:Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
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Book:Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
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