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Doreen smiled, "It's just Benjen, not Benjamin but I understand." She then took a sip of her own drink.
"New London," she said, "I've never been there. In fact, I've never been to Bretonia at all." She thinks for a moment, "In fact, I've never been to any house except for Rheinland and that's because I was born there, on Hamburg." She sighs and gets straight faced, "and now, I can't return to what was my homeland after my father's trial. We were exiled and ordered never to return or we would be shot. But, I'm trying to forget that as my father is now a shipwright at Lividia Shipyard and doing fine. Mother recently joined him.
She then takes another sip of her drink, "But they have told me to do what is right for me, what is right for Benjen. So, when I finish my doctor's studies here, Dr. Holliday wants me to finish my studies on planet Cambridge. Where I go from there or what my future holds, I don't know but I don't want to raise Benjen on a colony ship if I can help it."
She was somewhat upset at this point despite an effort to hide it behind a weak smile. "They treat me well here but unfortunately, when some find out that I'm not yet 21 nor am I married and have a child well, folks think poorly of me." She then makes a face of "it figures" and takes a drink, thinking she has bored him.
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