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Hawkes had seen to it that they stayed away from the apartment during the first few months of Alan's Earther education; but now that the ex-starman was an accomplished gambler and fairly well skilled in self-defense, all of Hawkes' old friends were returning once again. Day by day Alan increasingly realized how innocent and childlike a starman's life was.
The decision was an involved one, since Alan had undeniably been born three hundred years earlier, in 3576 but the robojudge that presided over that particular hearing cited a precedent seven hundred years old which stated that for legal purposes a starman's biological and not his chronological age was to be accepted. The guardianship posed no problems for Alan, though.
If they only knew what a starman's life is like, with the Contraction and all! If they could only see what it is to leave your home and never be able to go back " "They can't see it, Alan. All they can see is that you have the stars and they don't. They resent it." Alan shrugged. "Let them go to space, then, if they don't like it here. No one's stopping them." They walked on silently for a while.
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