relationship we've never had differences between 
us. Why this sudden change of mind? Why should we 
put our relationship on another basis now? We 
leave everything that way, that's how it is." 
   "No", Leroy Nilsson said. "Our past relationship 
was amoral, despicable, against all good customs. 
Only humans, who are connected by marriage, may. . . 
you know what Iım trying to say." 
   "But, Leroy. . ."
   "I ask you again, Leigh:  Do you want to become 
my wife?" Again Leigh Anderson shook her head, 
more energetically than last time. 
	"No, I won't do that " she answered. "Leroy. . . "
	Nilsson did not let her speak any further. 
"Then I'm sorry" he said brusquely. "We have nothing 
else to say to each other. Good-bye, Leigh! " 
   He let her picture on the screen disappear. 
   Then he knelt down in the middle in the room, 
folded his hands and spoke: "Almighty God, I was 
a sinful, corrupted human. From now on, however, 
I vow. . . " 

                      *


   Concentrating, Doctor Helena Russell slid the 
Medi-Scanner over the thigh of her female patient.
   She smiled. "It's looking good, Ellen", she 
said, pleased, "very good even. The foreign muscle 
tissue has integrated itself magnificently. In the 
meantime, the anti-bodies have accepted it and no 
longer fight against it. With some discretion, 
nothing more can go wrong. Perhaps again in 
fourteen days we'll have a second, short    

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