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. Suit yourself."
"All right. The sticky point is your appearance. If you were old and dried
up instead of young and juicy-"
"Are you complaining?"
"No. Merely descriptive. Stipulating that you are Hazel Stone, bom 2063,
how do you account for your youthful appearance? And don't give me any guff
about a legendary patent medicine."
"You'll find the truth hard to believe, Richard. I have undergone
rejuvenation. Twice in fact. The first time to bring me back in appearance to
late middle age... while restoring my bodily economy to youthful maturity. The
second time was mostly cosmetic, to make me desirable in appearance. To recruit
you, sir."
"Be damned. Monkey face, is that your own face?"
"Yes. It can be changed if you would like me to look otherwise."
"Oh, no! I'm not one to insist on prettiness as long as a girl's heart is
pure."
"Why, you louse!"
"But since your heart isn't all that pure, it's nice that you're pretty."
"You can't talk yourself out of it that easily!"
"Okay, you're gorgeous and sexy and evil. But 'rejuvenation' explains
without explaining. So far as I've ever heard, rejuvenation is for flatworms but
not for anything higher up the evolutionary ladder."
"Richard, this part you'll have to take on faith-for now, at least. I was
rejuvenated at a clinic a couple of thousand years away and in an odd
direction
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