My face was lightly made-up to hide some of the wrinkles around myeyes and mouth. I shook my head and looked away from the reflectionwith anger and re...ret, my hoop earrings banging into my cheeks. Itwas bad enough being a female but to lose 32 years of my life, thatwas even worse.Angrily I started to rifle through my bag until I found my cigarettesand lighter. I fished out a long white menthol cigarette with longgold painted acrylic nails. I hate smoking and had been overjoyedwhen my mom had. Where would the resurrected people stay between operations? There would be hell to pay if several thousand people suddenly showed up on Earth. We need a planet of our own where we could live and train without upsetting the 'civilians.' Do you know of such a place? Then, there are a lot of other things that we would need, such as housing, to start with. Somebody would need to produce thousands of units of the special body armor that we use. The list is almost endless, but I'm sure that you. The shop was not crowded so there was no pressure from the management for us to make space for paying customers until the movie let out.None of us had read a synopsis of the movie. Jessica got us started by stating the plot, as she imagined it. She thought that, based on the title of the movie and the posters we had seen, there were three bachelors who were taking care of a baby.Jessica got us all involved in expanding upon the scenario that she had presented; asking questions about why the. "They do," the mother said, smiling. "They just have a different kindof pee pee."Percy shook his head. The boy, who was, perhaps, five, might be tooyoung to hear the complete details concerning the sexual differentiationof the species, but his mother could have explained that boys havetesticles (and, as part of the sperm's delivery system, a penis) whilegirls have ovaries, the former organs existing for the sake offertilizing the latter, and that the resulting offspring, as a mammal,is born.