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. We stock it or make it or fake it. Miracles we do at once; anything else
even sooner. Exception: Virgins are a special order... average lead time,
fourteen years. Factory rebuilt virgins, fourteen minutes."
"Who in hell wants a virgin? Mistress Teena, do you think
it is polite to watch roe take a pee?"
"Youngster, don't try to tell your grandmother how to steal sheep. One of
my duties is to watch everything in all departments of this fun house and catch
mistakes before they happen. Two: / am a virgin and can prove it... and I am
going to make you sorry you were bom male for uttering that disparaging
crack about virgins."
(Oh, hell!) "Mistress Teena, I did not mean to offend you. I was simply
embarrassed, that was all. So I spoke hastily. But I do think micturition and
such should be granted privacy."
"Not in a hospital, bud. They are significant aspects of the clinical
picture, every time."
"Uh-"
"Here comes my sister. If you don't believe me, you can ask her."
A couple of seconds later the wall opened and Mistress Minerva came in,
carrying a hospital-bed urinal of the old-fashioned sort-no automatic machinery,
no electronic controls. I said, "Thank you. But I no longer need it. As I'm sure
your sister told you."
"Yes, she did. But surely she didn't tell you that she had?"
"No, I deduced it. Is it true that she sits somewhere in the basement and
snoops on every patient? Doesn't she find it boring?"
"She doesn't really pay any attention until it's needed
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