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Sowing the Seeds – Part II

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While the children finished getting ready Charles and Vanessa transmitted between one another a flurry of holographic images of the children--mundane scenes of the children playing or learning; extraordinary images of the pair fencing, acting out Shakespeare, and even dissecting a small Terran amphibian called a frog that had been carried to the colonies with …

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Sowing the Seeds – Part I

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"Good morning, Vanessa," the computer named Charles intoned. "Good morning, Charles. I take it that you slept well?" The higher, sexless voice of the computer named Vanessa replied. "Like a baby," replied Charles. These words, too, had been spoken in exactly the same manner at exactly the same time for years as well. But today …

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