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adoption could be an option if you are unable to provide a child
But words is like the spots on dice: no matter how you fumbles 'em there's times when they just won't come. So simile is the answer.
In the story, it tells us that even though many Cyclopes live on the island, they don't have a community. They do not get together. The live separately not caring about the others. The text says, "Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting,no consultation or old tribal ways,but each one dwells in his own mountain cavedealing out rough justice to wife and child,indifferent to what the others do. . . ."<span />
