She came home all depressed, put on her flimsy flamingo-pink night gown, the short one, and started knocking back beers from the fridge. I knew she w...sn't going to be making any dinner that evening, in that mood; so I ordered some Chinese delivered for us both. She sat there next to me, on our white couch, in a mopey mood. I tried to get her interested in playing the game I was doing, but she just could at have any enthusiasm for anything.I said that I was glad she had dumped the guy, even. That was her only time with a manI asked if that's when she lost her virginity?She said noHow did you loose it then I asked?Look Chris you are going through the same as I did , you are finding out about your body and sex , I'm not going to use you,What I saw today was no different to what I have done with my friend , that's why I will not say anything,you mean you have done it with a girl? She laughed yes, like you I have a friend We started about 6 years ago, How I asked?She said sally and her. I don’t know what Confederacy ethics guided the whole “reprogram Eddie” project. I mean, are AIs seen as completely sentient, autonomous citizens in the Confederacy? I know that reprogramming Eddie took the cooperation of several other AIs, so it’s not like AIs are on oppressed class. I mean a class as in human, even Marxian terms. But human categories could not apply to an alien species, and especially not to an artificial construct of those species. But you see how difficult it is to create a. ” Anne agreed. In the ‘Beerkeller’ we order a two pint stein each and we sat at the end of one of the long tables away from everybody else who was in. Anne went to the toilet, when she returned she sat a little distance away from me, straddling to bench and facing me, with her back to the other customers. I looked down, she opened her legs revealing that she had taken off her knickers. They were in her hand and she passed them to me. They felt slightly damp and I shoved them into my pocket. She.