Sue's "presents" were standing behind him and I let them all in, telling everyone to stay real quiet since I wanted this to be a real surprise for Sue... Joe quietly introduced me to his three brothers-Sue's present! There was Paul, about 22 and the same size as Joe. Then Sam, about 20 and a bit shorter and thinner than his older brothers. Last, there was Tom. Joe said Tom was 17 and a virgin. All of the brothers were good-looking and obviously worked out to stay in great shape. And it was pretty. ”“Soon all of us will move to new bodies in our old form. We will not move as did all your people and lose our memories. We will use the technology from Porquenta and improved by the Uzliumbax and Collective and construct a form that is Una, but is a later generation bio-mechanical body based on the design of Sheila.“Your doctors, AIs and engineers have in a very short time radically improved the construction techniques and can build a body in a week. It is much like the rebuild you had Jason.. ’ ‘How are you going to get them to leave so we can begin our game? This is going to be pretty tiring if we don’t start until late. We may all get plastered and be unable to perform, you know.’ ‘I’ll ask Sharon. She always has a plan.’ Ashleigh went to the phone and dialed Sharon’s number. When Ted answered, they engaged in a little polite sex talk, then he handed the phone over to Sharon. ‘Hi, Sharon, Tom and I have been talking and he’s OK with the idea for tonight. I take it Ted agrees as. Every now and then, either Ellen or Nancy would sit on his other side and he'd hold that one too. More than once I fell asleep like that, and when I woke up he'd still be holding me.I remember asking him why he was so patient with us girls, and he said, "You three have had too many hurts for being so young. You need time to heal just like I did. You gave me that time, so now it's my turn to give it back. Friends do that for friends."After thinking about that for awhile, I told Ellen and Nancy.