THE "CRIMSON SCHOLAR": I... As one who has a soul like your own, I have something I must tell you. I was... I was born as a serf. I was the third of seven siblings. My brother broke his arm in the fields, weakened, and was left to die. One night, the land owner summoned my sister, and she never returned. On a clear winter morning, my youngest brother went cold, and failed to wake from his slumber. Another sibling caught smallpox. I was powerless. Only my sister and I survived. And

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