"Now, for the bad news. Is there some way that the medical or R&D people can fix our brains, I mean Ann's and mine, so that we can talk to each other ...ithout other people knowing about it. My idea is some sort of personal radio hooked directly to our hearing and speech centers so that we can have the same effect as if we had mental telepathy? There have been a couple of occasions already where we needed to communicate over a distance of maybe 20 miles without using our voices." Man, you two are. The woman actually picked the machine next to the one he was using, she bundled her clothing into the machine, paused and then turned around to him.“Excuse me, you don’t have extra washing powder perhaps?”He nodded,“Yeah, right in the basket on that machine, help yourself.”She smiled at him gratefully,“Thank you, I can’t believe I forgot that of all things.”He chuckled,“It happens to the best of us.”As she bent over the machine to fetch the box out of the basket, he appraised her again. She was. Living in a rather large city in New Jersey there were no beaches, and where I live the parks close at night so we decided to go for a small walk in the wooded area close to my home. We walked there hand in hand silently, no words between us only the joy of each other’s company.. then for no reason we stopped and decided to sit in the clearing and stare at the moon. But I couldn’t, I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. That’s when I first kissed her tenderly and softly upon her lips, her response. "In here," the strangely comforting whisper said.Ellen felt around for a doorknob or a handle to help her get the boardout of the way. there was a handle on the left side. She grabbed it andpulled, the board sliding away to reveal a new room.Inside, the air no longer smelled of mold and decay, but like rareflowers in bloom. There was a strange purple glow coming from theopposite side of the relatively small room, but it was obscured by woodenand wire mannequins, stacks of unused fabric, and.