"You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!"

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I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

— Ernest Gaines