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“I took her hands in mine. I looked in her eyes. I took a deep breath, trembling. ‘I once ate an entire watermelon in one sitting,’ I told her. ‘And it gave me diarrhea.’”

“‘Ooo,’ Ulaam said. ‘I like her. I’m going to have to keep an eye on you, girl. Here, hold this.’ He dropped something into her other hand. It was a human eye.”

“I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient life was a group of pancake-like beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you not, one was named Doug.”