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In "Jarhead," for instance, Mr. Swofford wrote about his older sister's difficulties with their father, but added, "My father was never a bastard to me," perhaps because he was "a spitting image" of his father and being "a bastard to me" would "have been like being a bastard to himself, and he'd had enough of people being bastards to him" while growing up.
Gendry probably feels that he might after many, many years, finally meet someone he has common ground with, both being bastards and the confused identity that goes with that.
Being bastards -- heirs only to a social contract they insist never existed in the first place -- the rest of us were never entitled to the blessings of a birthright, any more than we're entitled to any other rights, including the right to govern ourselves.
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You are bastards".
They're bastards, all of them.
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Now seals are bastards, we all know this.
If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything.
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