She just won't put up with that-but I don't know what she'll do instead. I used to dream, as I worked on all those campaigns, that someday I'd win back the right for Edyie to have the risky, but hope-filled future she craved. When I thought about dying, someday, it was with regret that I might not live to see Edyie go to Mars or to accomplish whatever other big thing she wanted to do. But now I don't have any of those regrets, because it isn't going to happen. Even three years ago, I wouldn't have said that.
Freedom is just common sense.
But some of the things that have happened in the last couple of years make that all different. They didn't just happen . People in government did them to us. In the last couple of years, they finally did what they'd been moving toward for a long time. They passed the laws that just plain make us slaves.