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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Grief, Heart, Echoes
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.