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    It was one of those things that had felt so normal it was still a little bizarre to think about in context. The Pirates were in a perpetual rebuild, the coffee stand near him started charging extra for almond milk, and the alien race of Struvians came out publicly in 1970 in the middle of the Nixon presidency.

    He remembers listening to his Grandma complain around the dinner table about the neighbor who had turned out to be— well, a little more foreign than she'd realized. Or his roommate laughing at the memory of his brother's affront when he'd announced his engagement to a Struvian he'd met in one of their chemistry classes.

    It was a routine part of daily life, somehow, while still seeming just atypical enough that it was hard to forget. Still, by the time he'd made it to college, it was more normal than not.

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    Frank Langdon is an attending emergency room physician, runs a sub 4 marathon, and also happens to be an alien. Robby had thought only one of those things was relevant to himself. He thought wrong.

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