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  "thread": {
    "id": 3647,
    "subject": "Poor Olivine",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-12-03T21:29:56+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-03T21:29:56+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2352@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-03T21:29:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Poor Olivine",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Crush wrote before:\nIf one femchem was as good as another to Hammerstone, why did he leave\nMarble and have the child they were making broken up when she revealed\nthat\nshe was Magnesia?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Roy responded:\nI probably shouldn't even ask, but **where, in or out of the whorl, did you\nget such an idea???**"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Crush wrote:\nCall me crazy but Marble must have received some sort of information,\nbetween her warning that she would become an abandoned woman and her\ndeclaration that she **was** an abandoned woman. Since Marble was\n**abandoned** then Hammerstone has left her. In terms of logic, that is a\n\"consistency by equivalence\". The only information I can see that could\nhave\nled her to that conclusion is what Mucor said - channeling Hammerstone the\nsame way she spied on Potto in the house of Blood. The only interpretation\nI\ncan derive from Mucor's words is that he is having another soldier \"break\"\nthe child they said they would start on immediately (at their wedding)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "To go from Marble's notion of abandonment to the destruction of a child\nrequires a leap in logic that leaves me in the dust. I can only conclude\nthat . . . hell, I don't know what to think. You must not have read the SS\nseries, for one thing. Let me state flat out that no such thing happened to\nthe child. Fact."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Crush responds:\nI suppose its **possible** to play with the text to allow this, but it is\nhard to square that with Hammerstone's assertion that he lost track of her\nduring his last 74 year nap. That pretty firmly suggests a change in the\nstatus of their relationship. If he didn't know where she was during the\nentire voyage and then he didn't know where she was after, he can hardly\nsay\nhe lost track of her."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And if Moly had been at Sun Street from Day One, and nowhere else, then he\nwould have known **exactly** where to find her. He didn't know. That's why\nhe said: \"Maybe I should've gone looking for Moly.\"\n\n-Roy"
        }
      ]
    }
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