Animated the face might have been beautiful - any set of features can support beauty - but even a superb makeup job could not have made her pretty.

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

I was putting together a picture of a life that would have depressed anyone with the sensitivity of a rhino. Back when I had first seen her, when her features …

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…