There wasn't any time to think on it, anyway.I'd gone to sleep in my procedurally/stochastically generated fantasy gamesim, Arcadia, as I did every da.... There was a backup automatically made of my mindstate, sent to my personal sim, in case I was somehow destroyed. The backups knew they were not the original, and weren't supposed to wake up, anyway, unless I was unavailable.Of course, that's not what happened. Somehow, a sizable mutation in the copy -- preserving the original checksum! -- had. As I opened my eyes, my mind immediately went to work. Did Lance spend the night? I think what really bothered me the most, was that Beth had not even tried to contact me and try to explain. I got dressed and left for work.Christmas was Saturday, we were off on Friday, which was Christmas Eve. Jennifer’s office party was Thursday night at one of the five star restaurants in the French Quarter. I left work early that Thursday to make sure I was ready on time. I pulled into my drive about an hour. " Isn't this like...?" Unusual?" Fred asked. "Yes it is, but she's also got to let you have afew more grown up things. Otherwise we might as well just finishregressing you to a babbling baby and send you to an etiquetteschool..."She sighed. "A few, but not a lot." she told me while looking at him asif to remind him who was the mommy. "Let's feed you your breakfast!"I snuck a long nurse on my caffeinated bottle first. 'Oh coffee I'vemissed you!!!!!' I thought to myself. I smiled as I pulled the. I have to admit that ever since the night with Alec, I’ve had a fantasy about you with another guy again. I can’t believe that you haven’t too, as fantastic as that night was. Mike could be the one who would make that fantasy come true. You told me just the other day how good the sex was with him…and that was when you were practically still a kid. Think how good it could be now!” “I don’t think so, honey. I love you too much. Can we please drop it?” “I know you love me. That’s why I wouldn’t be.