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    One Way
    One Way
    One Way
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    One Way

    By Miriam Allen DeFord

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      One Way - Miriam Allen DeFord

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of One Way, by Miriam Allen deFord

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: One Way

      Author: Miriam Allen deFord

      Illustrator: Irv DOCKTOR

      Release Date: May 26, 2010 [EBook #32541]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONE WAY ***

      ONE WAY

      By MIRIAM ALLEN deFORD

      Illustrated by Irv DOCKTOR

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction March 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      I thought of every way to save Hal from the Lydna Project and failed ... but the women didn't!

      We had the driver let us off in the central district and took a copter-taxi back to Homefield. There's no disgrace about it, of course; we just didn't feel like having all the neighbors see the big skycar with Lydna Project painted on its side, and then having them drop in casually to express what they would call interest and we would know to be curiosity.

      There are people who boast that their sons and daughters have been picked for Lydna. What is there to boast about? It's pure chance, within limits.

      And Hal is our only child and we love him.

      Lucy didn't say a word all the way back from saying good-by to him. Lucy and I have been married now for 27 years and I guess I know her about as well as anybody on Earth does. People who don't know her so well think she's cold. But I knew what feelings she was crushing down inside her.

      Besides, I wasn't feeling much like talking myself. I was remembering too many things:

      Hal at about

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