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The “Gifted” — Who Needs Assistance When You Just Work Hard Enough?

By Ouyang Dan on 31 August, 2010

Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, recommended to me by The Guy, my partner of several years now, whom I thought loved me, seemed innocuous enough. I thought it a simple fantasy series woven with a love story (“woven” here should read more like a nice cudgel to the head), which I was looking for. [...]

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