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"She knew galaxies, of course - island universes containing gas clouds and dust and vast myriads of stars, from millions to trillions each. Her job, after all, was to haul gifts from one spiral swirl to the next, or to and from great elliptical giants, galaxies so huge that it seemed extravagant of the universe to have made more than one.
She had spent a million years carrying cargo from one galaxy to another, and yet had never been outside of one before.
Outside! She quailed from the thought, staring at the multitude of foggy specks all around her. But there isn't anything outside of galaxies!"
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