Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
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Gustav Klimt Kiss painting
Head of Christ Once again Obi-wan put a gentle inflection in his voice, to soothe the turmoilbrewing in his young friend's soul. "To protect you both against the Emperor, youwere separated when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, that one day, withthe Force on their side, Skywalker's offspring would be a threat to him. For thatreason, your sister has remained safely anonymous." Luke resisted this knowledge at first. He neither needed nor wanted a twin.He was unique! He had no missing parts—save the hand whose mechanicalreplacement he now flexed tightly. Pawn in a castle conspiracy? Cribs mixed,siblings switched and parted and whisked away to different secret lives? Impossible.He knew who he was! He was Luke Skywalker, born to a Jedi-turned-Sithlord,raised on a Tatooine sandfarm by Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, raised in a life withoutfrills, a hardworking honest pauper—because his mother…his mother…What was itabout his mother? What had she said, who was she? What had she told him? He