I had just seen the two most horrible things. The first was the smile. They say that when the bomb went off at Hiroshima, some people's shadows were baked onto walls by it. I think that smile got baked on the surface of my brain in much the same way. I don't want to talk about that smile.

I smelled her before I saw her. Even so, the first sight was shocking.

Five days of wireheading alone should have killed her, never mind sudden cold turkey.

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