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She was a robot. It
was hard, looking at her, to think of her as anything but a real
person.
    “ Yes, well, not just for
that. I’m tired of being single. But…I’m fifty years old. It’s hard
to find somebody at my age, and let’s be frank—I’m nobody’s idea of
a catch. I guess with you I don’t have to be though, do I? And I
don’t want another wife anyway. I want you to be my companion, you
know, in all the ways that another person would be a companion. You
can do that, right?”
    “ That is right,” said
Patience. “I can be anything and everything you want me to
be.”

Chapter Two

    The next day was so busy that there were
times when Mike forgot about Patience, at least for a moment or
two. That was saying something, because it had been an eventful
night. They had talked for a while, Patience quizzing him on his
likes and dislikes, though in retrospect, it seemed scant enough
information for any kind of detailed profile. Then she had given
him a massage and they had gone to bed. The sex had been pretty
incredible. It wasn’t like he thought it would be. She didn’t feel
cold or plastic. She felt squishy in all the right spots—firm in
the right spots too. She seemed to know what he wanted before he
knew that he wanted it. Afterwards, he had fallen asleep, waking up
once during the night to find her looking through his closet.
    In the morning, she had served him breakfast
in bed—cereal and milk, toast and grape jelly, and orange juice,
which was about all the breakfast food he had in the house. When he
had taken a shower, she had been there waiting as he had come out
with a clean, dry towel. Though he usually didn’t allow for any
extra time in the morning, and eating breakfast had taken up enough
time that he actually had to hurry, he still took a moment to
notice that she had been cleaning during the night. She had picked
up all the dirty clothes off the bedroom floor and the bathroom had
been cleaned. Who knows what else she had done that he hadn’t
noticed.
    “ Turn your texTees to ‘Our
World’ page 1056,” Mike told the class. “The ten review questions
on this page will be the first ten questions of your final exam the
day after tomorrow. Look up the answers you don’t know at this
time.”
    Two hands went up.
    “ What is it,
Curtis?”
    “ I don’t have my
texTee.”
    “ Is that your problem too
Mabel? You don’t have your texTee?
    The dark haired girl two seats behind Curtis
nodded her head.
    “ Why even bother to show up
without your texTee? You know it’s review day. Why are you even
here?”
    “ My mother makes me come,”
said Mabel.
    “ It’s not my fault,” said
Curtis. “I left it at my dad’s girlfriend’s house.”
    “ I would be willing to bet
that you have your phone with you though,” said Mike. “Get one of
the classroom texTees out of the cabinet.”
    “ Whatever!” said
Mabel.
    As the two students retrieved the reading
devices, these particular ones covered across the top with bright
red reflective tape, there was a knock at the outside door. The
classroom had an inside door which led to the hallway and the rest
of the school and an outside door which faced a small lawn and the
back of the adjacent power plant. Peering in through the metal mesh
that covered the outside door was Patience.
    “ I brought you lunch,
Mike,” she said, when he opened the door a few inches. Patience was
wearing the black and white polka dotted dress.
    “ I usually eat in the lunch
room.”
    “ Here.” She pushed a
soft-sided grey lunch box with the word Thermos on the side toward
him.
    “ Where did you get
this?”
    “ It was in the
cabinet.”
    “ It was?”
    She nodded. Then she turned and walked across
the lawn. Mike could see the blackened soles of her bare feet as
she walked away.
    “ Who was that?” asked
several students as he closed the door.
    “ Was that your daughter?”
asked Mabel.
    “ Um, no. Let’s get focused
on our review questions.”
    At lunch