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and more quickly. Still, I guess some of the hard cases among shy people needed
to be thrown together. I knew there were adults who owned -D holos and who

rarely met in the flesh. But those people were usually up to a century old or

more, and wanted to cultivate their privacy. They had lived into our time from

the last century, and their bodies had been renewed at least twice through organ

clones and cell regeneration, so they were a special case.

I stood up from my seat at the end of the long table and spotted Morey's broad

shoulders near the north exit. He pushed through the outgoing crowd and came

across the room, adjusting his collarless tweed jacket and brushing back his

dark brown hair.

"Sorry, Joe," he said loudly as he slipped in across from me and shook his head.

"Old Lyons and super gravity. He doesn't seem to know—" He gave me a blank look

as I sat down. "What's wrong?"

"You're late and I wanted to talk."

He glanced at the wall timer. "Sorry. You have your acceptance letter?" He bit

his lower lip. "Look, I said I'm going. It's all set. Your parents still edgy

about it? You know they can't stop you." He was looking right at me. "What is

it—you don't want me for a roommate?"

"It's not that. I've been wondering."

He examined me with his steel-blue eyes. I looked down at the table, feeling

foolish. "I guess I'm worried about going off-planet to college."

He sighed. "It's the best school we could get into, one of the best anywhere."

"It's the idea of actually going away from everything, outside the atmosphere …"

"Nothing to worry about." He seemed a bit surprised. "You know what it's like

out there. Space won't bite you."