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James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn Quotes: A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
         

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.


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