The take from Harbouria informed the listeners of significant absences from the parliamentary line up. Several worlds had not sent their delegates nor... apologies; the commentators pointed out that most of the absentees were from systems which had no naval presence. U95 visual surveillance showed an increasing flow of cargo vessels which had not been seen by the linking chain of U40s; there had been virtually no traffic for Harbouria through the Junction so the committee came to the conclusion. Why would I make the task of the racists easier by hating my own people? Black folks need to stop letting religious and cultural differences get in the way of unity, seriously. Those who hate us don’t care about these things. They would wipe us all out if they could. Why make things easier for them by fighting our own? I thought I was the only Black person in the world who understood that, until I met Jean-Bernard Guillot. Jean-Bernard, or ‘J.B.’ as he prefers to be called, is a six-foot-tall,. She was all right at work, interested in each patient, but after five she might as well have been on heroin. She tried to read, or do a crossword puzzle, curled up in one of Bob's overstuffed arm chairs, but usually ended up just sitting there, wondering why she let herself feel so bad. Bob usually had the TV on, but she rarely paid any attention to it. Or to him.As was becoming usual for her, she slept late on the weekends. Her body was beginning to be affected by the fact that she got to. I asked her what she meant, but was getting very nervous about what I might be about to hear. She said that she appreciated me letting her take care of my needs earlier.Now I was in full panic mode and at a loss for words. She must have crawled under the sheets in the dark this morning and sucked me. Before I could utter any words, she asked me if I liked what she did for me.Being stupefied and not knowing what to say, I got up and headed to the rec room to watch TV. My daughter thankfully.