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_Paris_
Dear Senbot Drosmig:
_To think that I am enjoying the benefits of Terra while my wife
and little ones are forced to remain on Fizbus makes my heart ache.
Surely it is not fair that I should have so much and they so
little. Imagine the inestimable advantage to the fledgling of even
a short contact with Terrestrial culture!_
_Why cannot my loved ones come to join me so that we can share all
these wonderful spiritual experiences and be enriched by them
together?_
_Poignantly yours,_
_Tpooly N'Ox_
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Dear Mr. N'Ox:
After all, it has been only five years since Fizbian spaceships
first came into contact with Terra. In keeping with our usual
colonial policy--so inappropriate and anachronistic when applied to
a well-developed civilization like Terra's--at first only males are
allowed to go to the new world until it is made certain over a
period of years that the planet is safe for mothers and future
mothers of Fizbus.
But Stet Zarnon himself, the celebrated and capable editor of the
Terran edition of _The Fizbus Times_, has taken up your cause, and
I promise you that eventually your loved ones will be able to join
you.
Meanwhile, work, study, meditate.
Helpfully yours,