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Remembered another detail and clarified likely date range.
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The protagonist was working on an alien world where the natives lived only a matter of days, but despite the inevitable tragedy she allowed herself to enter into a relationship with one.

LikelyI seem to recall the aliens worked around the problem of their ephemeral lifetime by somehow each transferring all their knowledge to their offspring, perhaps as part of their death process.

It was likely a short story written before 2000that I read between 1980 and 1995 in New Zealand (in English).

The protagonist was working on an alien world where the natives lived only a matter of days, but despite the inevitable tragedy she allowed herself to enter into a relationship with one.

Likely a short story written before 2000.

The protagonist was working on an alien world where the natives lived only a matter of days, but despite the inevitable tragedy she allowed herself to enter into a relationship with one.

I seem to recall the aliens worked around the problem of their ephemeral lifetime by somehow each transferring all their knowledge to their offspring, perhaps as part of their death process.

It was likely a short story that I read between 1980 and 1995 in New Zealand (in English).

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Which story featured a human woman who had a relationship with a short lived alien?

The protagonist was working on an alien world where the natives lived only a matter of days, but despite the inevitable tragedy she allowed herself to enter into a relationship with one.

Likely a short story written before 2000.