Personally, I would like to see the monopoly end, but I couldn't figure out how to do it without giving the fanatical hate groups like The True Believ...ers access to interplanetary or interstellar travel.We'd even had to resort to clandestine operations against several groups, The True Believers being the most significant, but we still were not safe, and I doubted if we ever would be. Mars Enterprises ruled Mars, and was close to ruling Earth in all really important matters. I was dead set. .” He didn’t know what else to say at this point. He smiled at her stupid joke. But then his smile went away as he looked closely at her face.The silence lasted for what seemed forever. The two of them were now staring in each other’s eyes. Her hand was still slightly touching his chin. Literally, for over a minute the two of them examined each other’s face in hopes that they could determine exactly what the other was feeling.Pam could not help herself. She applied more pressure under his chin. "Why are people here naked?" Cris asked from the back seat."Well," Mr. Cortez explained, "some people like to be naked for comfort, and some people like to be naked because they think it's sexy. A lot of people in America don't like sex, so they made it illegal to be naked most places. This city was built by people who didn't like those laws, so they encourage being naked." Do people here build a new city every time they don't like the laws?" No," Mr. Cortez chuckled, "mostly they just write. The difference between Lisa and me is her reaction to statements like Mike’s feel more like, “So, why are you telling me? What difference does it make?” Lisa is almost disinterested, but that is unfair to her as she was always absolutely fascinated by everyone. For me, it is akin to being surprised that someone was blonde when I was expecting a brunette and I’m sure that showed.The penny that dropped was that through all our reading on the internet (excluding the obvious trolls and fakes), the.