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"No one knows how long your Great Quest will be. Every hour may count, even now.
Say goodbye to your parents and your brothers and sisters."

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"I have none," said Atreyu. "My parents were both killed by a buffalo, soon after I was born."

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"Who brought you up?"

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"All the men and women together. That's why they called me Atreyu which, in our language, means 'Son of All!'"

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excerpt from
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim