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. Suit yourself.'
'Thank you. Now about this berthing assignment. It's a single. I want a double, for me and my wife. I want -'
'Your former wife, you mean. In Heaven there is no marriage or giving in marriage. I
'Huh? Does that mean we can't live together?'
'Not at all. But both of you must apply, together, at Berthing General. See the office of Exchange and Readjustments. Be sure, each of you, to fetch your berthing chit.'
'But that's the problem! I got separated from my wife. How do I find her?'
'Not part of my M.0.S. Ask at the information booth. In the meantime use your singles apartment in Gideon Barracks.'
'But -ґ
He (she?) sighed. 'Do you realize how many thousands of hours I have been sitting here? Can you guess how complex it is to provide for millions of creatures at once, some alive and never dead, others newly incarnate? This is the first time we have had to install plumbing for the use of fleshly creatures - do you even suspect how inconvenient that is? I say that, when you install plumbing, you are bound to get creatures who need plumbing - and there goes the neighborhood! But did they listen to me? Hunh! Pick up your papers, go through that door, draw a robe and a halo - harps are optional. Follow the green line to Gideon Barracks.'
'No!'
I saw his (her) lips move; she (he) may have been praying. 'Do you think it is proper to run around Heaven, looking the way you do? You are quite untidy
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