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Every living person is the apex of a massive project involving dozens, hundreds of people who *personally* worked to raise, nurture and love them. I wrote about this in *Walkaway*, as the characters consider whether to execute a mercenary sent to kill them, whom they have taken hostage:

> She had parents. People who loved her. Every human was a hyper-dense node of intense emotional and material investment. Speaking meant someone had spent thousands of hours cooing to you.

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