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April 1975

How to Identify a Martian

A message from an alien living in an Earth person's body

MY NAME is Lo. It's sort of a relief to know that I'm a Martian, and not one of those strange Earth people. It answers a lot of questions, such as: Why did I, as a child, feel that I had to watch other children to see how they behaved, so that I would know how to act--without the fear of betraying myself by crying when I should have laughed, or falling to the floor when I should have stood up to fight? Why, indeed, did I feel like a stranger in an alien land?

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