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One of my favorite authors (is it possible to have only one "favorite"?), Sharon Shinn:
"When you are told what to wear, what to eat, what to think, what to do on a daily basis - when there is no leeway at any juncture of any day for a person to make an individual decision - is that harder, I wonder, than to make those decisions every day, a hundred times a day, going by your own morality and your own judgment and balancing your desires against your sense of justice?" _Wrapt in Crystal_
Anyone who has camped, REALLY camped, will recognize the sentiment behind this one of Ms Shinn's:
"If she had to pick one pleasure from the canon of human sensuality, it would be the act of getting herself completely, luxuriously clean. She would forgo food, she would forgo love, she would forgo the feeling of silk against her bare skin, all for the satisfying satin of shampoo rinsing away past her fingers." _Heart of Gold_
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