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preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans

there can be emotional pits so deep that seemingly nothing will grow—but if he digs a little deeper

still must find a way to survive and thrive at Oomza University amid swirling interspecies biases

In Awakening in the Dream

but as this sobering realisation displaces their initial exuberant sense of adventure

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