"We'd better get your car, while we're at it," John said."OK," she said in passing, getting in the car. "Floppies. I'm going to need lots of floppies.... I've got a lot of data to download." I've got a few you can have," John replied as he got in and started the car. "Maybe eight or ten." That won't even get me started. I'm going to dump the whole mainframe. It'll take time to do, but it'll be quicker in the long run."John flipped a nickel in his mind. It was worth going to a fair amount of. " Abby replied while she was crying. "And I owe so much to you."Helen was in tears as well when Cathy asked her to unlock her collar. Helen didn't know quite how to feel, as she removed it from Cathy's neck, knowing that the young woman was going to leave. "I owe you" Cathy said."I think we all owe Carol."Later in the evening, David asked Abby to talk with him for a few moments. "I hear from Barbara that we have a shift in percentages of male fetus in intake." Yes. Instead of five percent we. ”“Okay,” I say hesitantly, “Maybe I just didn’t see it.” That feels wrong, but I am so unsure of everything that I don’t say anything more. “Let’s go.”“If you’re ready.”“I think so, and I don’t want to waste any more light.”He sighed in agreement. “Right you are.”I reach out and he guides me to my feet. When I find my balance he lets go and lets me lead. We walk past the sealed chamber and look for the other door. To our left the stairs to the roof run counter to our current direction. . ‘No? Neither do I. What we have is very special but I certainly couldn’t manage without a man’s attentions from time to time. And I guess you are much the same. Yes?’‘Perhaps. But it’s perhaps best not dwelt on. I mean, there’s no obvious solution.’That was when Teresa told me about something called Helping Hands and opened my naive eyes a whole lot wider. Apparently, the whole village was nothing short of a care-home for the sexually needy. Nobody seems to know how it started, though someone.