It was four in the morning!“Mum! What the heck are you doing?” I bleated. I also swore a bit, but I did that inside my head. Mum hates people swea...ing and I wasn’t silly enough to swear right at her, even after being woken up in the middle of the night.“Hush dear, go back to sleep. You don’t have to get up yet.”“Mum, it’s the middle of the night! What are you doing??” I asked again in the vague hope I might get some sort of rational answer.“When I was in here yesterday, I noticed the wallpaper. .. Annabel Lee noticed and giggled. A fine day indeed.Back at the College, Miss B approved of the purchases at once, relieved that the expense was so far modest. She had found the backup tapes, but when asked for installation disks for the backup software she looked blank. I explained what I was after and she vaguely replied that the "software was on the computer". She had no manuals, no disks and no recollection of the name of the stuff. I anticipated a long night.Miss B excused herself around. I thought I might pair up families who knew about me with families who didn't..." GREAT! I'd LOVE to meet other Julias and tell them what they need to know about you." I was thinking of pairing you up so you'd meet just one other Julia." If I can meet one of me, I can meet lots of me, right?" There are billions of you, far more than the population of any one Earth, but in principle you're right. What I've already done is created something I call the 'Communal Refuge' for groups of about ten. “I feel fine,” Jake said looking around wondering if he was hallucinating.He looked down at his legs. His pants were torn. He remembered seeing bone sticking out. Now his legs were whole.Betsy said, “That’s good. I was really worried about you.”“I kind of remember you. You kept appearing and disappearing,” Jake said.“Well, eat up. Your body needs the protein and the water.”Jake opened the soda and took a long drink from it. He put the can down and went to work on the sandwich. It tasted like.