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by grotsnot 3528 days ago
That's... not entirely accurate: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri#P... (2nd one for Peacekeepers)

    I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again.
        Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Time of Bereavement"

I didn't consider until now that it might be a little ambiguous, but I'm pretty sure the implication is not that Lal's chosen broke up with him, but that she died.
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Thanks. I guess it's gotten a little more twisted in my memory over the years.