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  I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. Attack
  ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the
  back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the
  Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone.
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