" You'll be able to apply for a spouse, Noah, if you want to. I'll warn you though that it be difficult. Your living arrangements will have to be different from those of most families units, because books are forbidden to citizens. You and I are the only ones with access to books"
I glanced around at the astonishing array of volumes. From time to time, I could see their colors.
With our hours together, we were consumed by conversation and by the transmission of memories. I haven't opened any of the books yet.
But I read the titles and knew they contained all the knowledge of centuries and that one day they belong to him.
"So if I have a spouse and maybe children I will have to hide the books from them?"
The giver nodding "I wasn't permitted to share the books with my spouse, that's correct and there are other difficulties too, you remember the rule that's say the new receiver can't talk about his training?"
Of course I remembered, it had turned out by far the most frustrating of the rules I was required to obey
"When you become a official Receiver you be given a whole new set of rules. Those are the rules I obey. And it won't surprise you that I am forbidden to talk about my work to anyone except the new Receiver"
"So there be a whole part of your life which you won't be able to share with a family?" I asked
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The Receiver
Fanfiction[Completed] In a world where everything is under control. Their no fear or pain.No choices, every person is assigned a role in the community. Will she choose To stay at the community or leave with Noah (Book 1: The Receiver Completed) (Book 2: The...
