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Authors: Al Sarrantonio

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“You mean . . . in the spring . . . ?

A look of complete joy comes over him. Already I know it will be a boy. This boy will be followed by many others, both girls and boys. Down across the generations, our children will cover the face of this world. With their fear taken away they will lead good lives.
Kral
and I will teach them.

I take
Kral's
hand in my own, looking into his beaming face, part my smiling lips, and say, finally, "Yes."

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