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Ashe
Estraven's Kemmering, or spiritual partner, for seven years, Ashe bore two sons with him. Ashe left three years earlier to join a Fastness at Orgny and became celibate. Before Ai goes to Orgoreyn, Ashe gives him money to take to Estraven.
Estraven
See Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
LeGuin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness during the Sixties, a time when gender-bending, free-love scenes—like this one at a...
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