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For the first time in his life he understood that he was like all men, and all were like him. They too were called to love, and they too feared love. Germans, Russians, and Poles, Gentiles and Jews, good men and bad, rich and poor'all clinging to their weapons of defense, all dwelling in terror of absolute nakedness.

Michael D. O'Brien Sophia House: A Novel

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