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. For years Papa tried
to wake him, after the Revolution when Papa had free access to the Warden's
Complex. He doesn't see how bringing those memories and programs here will do
it. Oh, he wants to try, he's eager to, he loves Mike. But he's not hopeful."
"When you see Manuel, tell him to cheer up; Deety has thought of an
answer." "Really? Oh, I hope so!" "Deety is going to provide Teena with lots
more unused capacity, both for memory and for symbol manipulation, thought-and
then she'll shove Mike into bed with Teena. If that does not bring Mike back to
life, nothing will."
My love looked startled, then giggled. "Yes, that ought to do it."
She then went back to the pool and I learned from Jacob Burroughs why his
daughter Deety spoke so emotionally about the Father of the Atom Bomb: She had
seen-they had seen, all four of them, their own home wiped out by an atom bomb-
a fission bomb, I inferred, but Jake did not say.
"Colonel, it is one thing to read a headline or hear a news report; it is
something else entirely when it's your own home that has the mushroom cloud
covering it.
"We are dispossessed, we can never go home. Eventually we were wiped
completely off the slate. In our time line there is nothing to show that we
four-myself, Hilda, Deety, Zeb- ever existed. The houses we once lived in are
gone, never were; the earth has closed over them with no scars
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