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32 lines
1023 B
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She told me she loved me more than anyone she ever met.
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I shouldn't have put much weight in those words coming from a robot
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programmed to love, but I did. There was something about her eyes,
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her lips. I couldn't get enough of them.
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"I love you too honeysuckle".
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She giggled. "What's honeysuckle'?"
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I told her it didn't matter, it was just a cute word.
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That night we were bowling. She had just hit another strike. Five
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for five.
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"So, leave him", I told her.
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Her face fell. She cried that she couldn't. She had no money and
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nowhere to go. Besides, she was his property. Someone would have to
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buy her from him, and he would never let that happen. She was stuck
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in that house with him and his clone-butler.
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"Clone-butler?", my ears pricked up when she mentioned it.
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"Sure", she told me, "It's common in these parts. He cloned himself
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and uses the clone as a butler and companion."
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"Honey, it's common all over these days", I told her. I was losing
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the bowling game badly, but I was smiling now. A plan was forming.
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