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ade delegation in town, of course-
how could I have missed it with all the publicity? Minnesota had
been suffering chronically depressed conditions in its agricul-
tural and mining industries for decades-the governor and the
mayors of the state's two largest cities, along with leading
members of the local business establishments were giving the
forthcoming conference all the hoopla they could muster. It had
even been a hot topic of conversation in my own grain futures
firm, where I had worked since graduating from college four years
ago. Still, I had hardly expected to get off work at ten in the
evening and find one of the aliens in a gay bar!
I had long been interested in this particular species of alien
because of its resemblance to a certain domestic animal I had a
thing about. Unfortunately, the domestic animal was too small to
do much with without doing it serious injury and its larger
relatives were much too dangerous to fool around with.
The remote ancestors of the Ailourians
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