A BEGINNING, A MIDDLE, AND A PROPER END
Eleven Months
Debriefings, travel, lectures, speeches, more debriefings, boards of inquiry, catching up on news and recent events, learning new technologies, and teaching a few, visits home, getting to know family and friends again, hearing how she'd changed, how much harsher she looked until she got out of uniform and smiled, trying and failing to have a life outside of duty, welcoming new crew members aboard, missing so many old ones, especially one--
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Debriefings, speeches, arguing cases, lectures, tutorials, more debriefings, catching up on news and recent events, visiting Seven's family, his own family and friends--those who were still alive, hearing how he'd changed, how he seemed a little lost, getting to know his students, thinking how young they were, how old he was, trying and failing to get used to new colleagues, missing so many old ones, especially one--
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