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  1. “Understand,” he says. “I am here forty-six years.”
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  3. “Forty-six years?!” I gasp. “Earth years?!”
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  5. “I am here forty-six Earth years, yes.”
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  7. He’s been stuck in this system for longer than I’ve been alive.
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  9. “How…how long do Eridians live?”
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  11. He wiggled a claw. “Average is six hundred eighty-nine years.”
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  13. “Earth years?”
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  15. “Yes,” he says a little sharply. “Always Earth units. You are bad at math, so always Earth units.”
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  17. I can’t even speak for a moment.
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  19. “How many years have you been alive?”
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  21. “Two hundred ninety-one years.” He pauses. “Yes. Earth years.”
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  23. ***
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  25. Chapter 15
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