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Later he learns the most important reason for a name. It’s so you can say, when you dare, ‘Leoben Conoy loves Kara Thrace’. He repeats it like a mantra each time he emerges from the wet cradle, and he goes back just so he can hear her say ‘Frak you, Leoben’, and it washes over him like a wave of elation. Numbers can’t love other numbers. Numbers can’t step out of line.