Free at last! Free at last!
Great Gawdamighty, I'se free at last!

Freds, it warms my heart to hear you let us know that everyone here is free. Thank you. Way things have been goin' the last eight years, it was beginning to look like the "free " part of our lives was goin't hell in a handbasket, right along with the "equal". It's jes' wunnerful how you can make a thing so like that by asserting it is so, and have it jes' be. It makes a powerful impression, I don't mind saying. Especially when the local aspirants to Undying Glory believe it takes a trillion of dollars and bunkerbusters, too.

Lemme know about the skyhook, now, ya hear?


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