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"Perhaps the prerogatives of this new age had rendered the vows of the old irrelevant... A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve."