There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.
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