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| 13 | 188 | But regardless of the View more quotes about truth">truth or falsity of such things, and regardless of the explanations or reasons for the things which lay so deep within me, whether they were recollective or merely the irrepressible fruits of genetic truths, so anomalous in my own time, so uncharacteristic of everything I had been taught, I had known they had lain within me. |
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| 13 | 185 | "I knew it even on Earth," I whispered to him. |
| 13 | 186 | Indeed, I had even wondered, strangely, at times, I supposed, if I might not have been a slave in former lives, in other eras, perhaps in the Ancient World or in the Medieval Middle East, in times more in tune with the true natures of human beings, natures as they really were, in themselves, and not as they might be when denied, thwarted, twisted and perverted by ideological insanities. |
| 13 | 187 | And, at times, recollecting, or seeming to recollect, such times and places, and their naturalness, and rightness, and their fulfillments and ecstasies, I, lonely and yearning, seemingly an exile in the sexual deserts of my own world and time, had wept. |
| 13 | 188 | But regardless of the truth or falsity of such things, and regardless of the explanations or reasons for the things which lay so deep within me, whether they were recollective or merely the irrepressible fruits of genetic truths, so anomalous in my own time, so uncharacteristic of everything I had been taught, I had known they had lain within me. |
| 13 | 189 | That was incontrovertible. |
| 13 | 190 | I knew that I, who was then Doreen Williamson, had been born for the collar. |
| 13 | 191 | I had never expected then, however, to wear it. |