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d to rent a car afterwards and drive the 80
miles to his hometown and look him up personally.
When I arrived, I went straight to his address and found
his name still listed on the mailbox of a small frame house.
I went up to the door and was not too surprised to find it
open, as this is pretty standard in small-town America. I
entered and passed through a living room and kitchen to
another door. I was totally unprepared for what I saw when I
opened it.
There was Mike stretched out in a chair before his
computer. He had a look of supreme joy on his face. He was
totally naked except for a truly remarkable piece of hardware
covering not only
his penis but extending to other nearby parts as well. It
was so strange that I examined it up close. By a quick
glance at its cables, I decided it had to be some sort of
combination input-output device. I also thought I saw
something like electrodes glued to at least a dozen places on
his body. The other thing I noticed was that he was dead.
Oddly enough, there wa
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