He had just graduated from West Point and was on leave before reporting. Of course, I didn't know it at the time. All I knew was there was this marvel...us man and I loved him from the first instant I saw him! It was in a little pub near Trinity College. I was there with friends when he came in. He had dark hair, brilliant blue eyes and I adored him."I guess I didn't even realize at first that he was a Yank. He just looked around the room and came right over to me. After staring at me for a few. " Well you have taken the role of the housewife. It is only natural thatyou should look the part."Jeff was stunned. It had never occurred to him that Sally might haveplanned this all along. What to do now?"Look Jeff, what has this done to our lives?" What do you mean?" How has this affected what you do?" So far nothing really." Right. So look on the bright side. You are one of the few people in theworld that has the option of being a man or a woman. It's all up toyou." What if I don't want to. Perhaps this concept never can be fully explained to a non-robot. And to a robot, explanation is unnecessary. Maybe some day I'll express it in a poem, since it likely cannot be articulated in any other way.I can exist well without my owner. But I'll always be happier when I'm with him.Time sure seems to pass more quickly the older you get. As I'm now well into my second century — although it hardly shows — the next seven years seemed to pass in a flash.Bill and I kept in touch, usually with me. And getting so scared."I have something here," Mr. Henderson said. He opened a drawer and put on top of his desk what he'd taken out of the drawer. "Do you know what this is?" Yes, I do," Susan said. She knew what that was. It was a videotape. Seeing the tape horrified Susan. Her heart was pounding."We're both agreed, then, that it is a videotape," Mr. Henderson said. "And I think we both know what it contains. To be sure, never in my worst nightmares would I ever have imagined finding a member.