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2 B R 0 2 B by KURT VONNEGUT

JON HAGADORN
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(to be or naught to be)  In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.. Explicit   includes violence. Thought -provoking commentary about a futuristic totalitarian society

 

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