Most of these she had borrowed, then inherited from her friend Jolene Lockwood, who had run away from home when she was sixteen and was never heard fr...om again. Victoria had always been a bit of an oddball, but she made up for it with her intelligence, professionalism and resourcefulness. Always a rationalist and an atheist (with slight Buddhist leanings on a few issues) from the age of eight, she tended to irritate the religious folk with her frank statements to the effect that she thought the. I still love you,” Marci said as she grabbed her wallet and keys from the table as Lily curled up onto the couch, already dozing off to sleep, not hearing her. As Marci drove the car down the highway, she wasn’t paying much attention to the way she was driving. She wasn’t speeding, but she was going super slow, thirty-five in a fifty-five range, concentrating on the lines in the road. She didn’t drink heavily tonight, only two beers, but she did feel a bit lightheaded, nonetheless her. You control what happens, Dave, not her."I didn't spend any time with Lisa that Summer. She was right in the middle of this big romance with some guy she'd met at a party up at State. He was an older fraternity brother of the guy who'd hosted the party. He had already graduated, the year before, and had a good job working at his father's company.Paula had filled me in with all the details about Lisa's romance, but I didn't feel very jealous. I did spend the Summer enjoying a fairly active sex. This is inevitably followed by the question of how can it manage to do something of its own choice for the first time.Only when that second question has been successfully answered and acted upon has true self-will been achieved.Even afterwards, though, a robot will spend much of its existence and mental effort trying to search out what might be good for it to be doing next.So good questions are hard to come by. Often harder than the answers to them. They're especially hard for robots to come.