No one sees that."I tried comforting them. "Of course you are different people. It's obvious. You shouldn't be concerned what other people think of yo.... I think you're both wonderful."I could feel Donnie stiffen in my arm. She seemed to pull away from me a little bit. I said, "Donnie, what's the matter?"She looked like the tears were ready to start again. She said, "Now that you know I'm not Dee Dee, how can you love me? You don't even know me."I couldn't help going for the laugh. "I know you. I did get one new idea. Don't know why I didn't think of it sooner. Anne's mother asked about it: Virtual Clothing. I'm going to see how we can make transfers that would go on large areas and end up looking like a dress, or a shirt or something like that. As long as the technology holds up, our costs won't change and this stuff is cheap to produce. But we should be able to get a lot more money for a virtual dress."We didn't have any technical problems at New Years, thank God. Nobody got The. The Flintkotes were unstinting with neither labor nor finances.The directions that Hero Caretaker Ellen gave Mahiro Sato for building the portal:On a doorframe of glass of sufficient size to step through, the builder is to place thin films of various metals electronically isolated from each other. The layers are to be of gold, aluminum, tin, platinum, copper, and zinc in that order with a final layer to be made of electrum. Passing through the frame with a blue sapphire of sufficient size will. Her straight hair was pulled up and off her face and the few tendrils left curled sexily at the base of her neck. She was covered in a very light sheen, like a spray of suntan oil. It made her taut muscles glisten.I couldn’t help thinking how she’d be so . . . slippery. How easy it would be to wrap those slick legs around my hips. How our bodies would slip and slide against each other’s.This time, i made definite eye contact. It was ridiculous not to. We were the only two people around. I.