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I've been studying the text for school, and I was wondering how the theme of self-love is presented through the character of Olivia? I get how it's done through Orsino or Malvolio, but I can't seem to find any evidence of it in her character.

All answers are appreciated! Thanks! :)

A close family friend found out about my veganism recently and told me that I should continue eating meat because "someday" in the future my body might "need meat products" in my "life cycle" or something like that. What do I say to this? He's also convinced that nutritionists are in a conspiracy to only report statistics in favour of vegetarianism and don't take into account some "undiscovered nutrient" in meat that our body needs.

Additionally, he says that if I find a boyfriend in the future who eats meat I would want to give up veganism for him, and by that my time my body might already be conditioned to reject meat. Besides the prospect of me throwing away my moral values for some guy (which disturbs me to the extreme), is this a thing that actually happens? Any long-time vegetarians that tried eating meat again and couldn't do it?

I've considered eating meat again but the prospect is so repulsive to me that I don't even want to try it. Suggestions, anyone?

I read this book when I was in primary school, so it was definitely published before 2008.

The dragons in this book were more like lizards; they were wingless and flew backwards by spewing out fire/air from their mouths. I distinctly remember them being compared to squids in the book due to this method of travel. The dragons have unpronouncable names (I think they lacked vowels) and are capable of speech.

The book starts with a dragon coming and bringing two girls, an older and younger sister, into another land. There they learn about an unidentified enemy. Their name is in their foreign language but is close to "barbarian". It turns out that the "barbarians" are not a seperate race as the girls initially thought but the term the dragons and humans used to refer to each other.

There are humans in the land who enslave dragons and ride them, as well as using unicorns to pull their caravans. Unicorns are violent and have metal balls encasing the tips of their horns to prevent them from goring people. I think there are also fairies, as I recall a scene where the dragons have torn the wings off fairies and piled them in a clearing, freaking the older sister out.

The younger sister is key to winning the war between dragons and humans due to a prophecy so both sides are fighting for possession of her. There is a scene in the middle of the book in some sort of crystal caves which serves as tombs for either dragons or humans. In the end, the older sister wins her younger sister back just as the two sides are about to battle each other, effectively preventing the war, and returns to her own world.

That's all that I can recall about the book, some of it might be inaccurate. The cover of the edition I read was of a dragon facing to the right with two girls riding it. The dragon definitely looks more like a lizard than anything else.

Please tell me if you have any idea of the title or author D: I really want to find it again.