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    Dearest

    By H. Beam Piper

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    “Oh, no; I’m really here,” the voice, inaudible but mentally present, assured him. “You can’t see me, or touch me, or even really hear me, but I’m not something you just imagined. I’m just as real as ... as Smokeball, there. Only I’m a different kind of reality. Watch.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateApr 10, 2016
    ISBN9781515405498
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