I looked at Eric and hewas smiling too! He looked back at me and said, in a loud voice,"GOTCHA!" And then he started to laugh. I stood there, not know...ngquite what to think. What was going on NOW?Finally Eric calmed down enough to talk to me and he said,"It's okay, Holly. All the women here know about HEADLIGHTS and thegirls who work there. This is an official outlet OF the HEADLIGHTSchain and all the girls come here to get their hair and makeup andother stuff done. They even know who _I_ am,. Sarah wondered if she were repeating herself when she heard herself say, ‘I hope…’ The trees of the neighborhood were flowing past her, and she let her eyes wander upstream. Not so far from home were things she couldn’t be certain she had ever seen before. ‘Why the long face, Sarah? Everything will be okay. The car’s got plenty of gas for the week, my itinerary’s on the fridge. Jason’s coming over to do the yard on Wednesday, and if there’s anything I forgot, just give me a call, and I’ll take. "How much time do we have left?" Twenty-five minutes until touchdown."Waylon decided to go topside. The orbiter was returning from its latest mission. It was a milestone of sorts. The flight would be its last without being configured for human occupation. The AIs were going to retrofit the vehicle to add a cockpit and living space, based partly on what they had learned in the simulator and with his microgravity training.Waylon had to navigate through a crowd of androids in white protective. I felt funny all of a sudden, like someone was staring at me. I looked around and saw my mom and Mrs. Bear looking at me very closely, both with smiles that told me I was being studied and talked about. I smiled uncomfortably back at them and busied myself with Rob, Karen and my conversation. It was Karen that surprised me first."I hope you don't take this wrong, Rich, but when my mom first saw you she told us she had seen a young girl next door. I know now that you don't have a sister, so it.