text:  But I admit that lately I'd been watching all these washouts my mom kept having to hire as it was them or nobody. What I was kind of starting to suspect, or at least sort of see the edges of, was that if I didn't get any schooling, then I was going to be one of them, wasn't I? How much of you did you put into Tali? A whole lot. That's practically me when I was Tali's age. I had no plans to be a writer. I was just going to be a farmer or do manual labor my whole life. So it's totally random that I ended up being on the bookshelves.