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"Get your brain back inside your head There'll be a paternity test DNA Meanwhile, your husband will be ure of ridicule, and every otherherself to someone else to put a cuckoo in the nest So you're out For the sake of everyone"

"If you e to people's trust in e as if we'd actually done it!"

Sel sat down on the green house floor and buried his face in his hands

"I'm sorry," said Afraima "I only half meant it"

"You mean that if I had said yes, you'd have

told reed to adultery?"

"No," she said "I'd do it Sel, you're the smartest, everyone knows it And you shouldn't be cut off without having children It's not right We need your genes in the pool"

"That's the genetic arguamy has been proven, over and over, to be the optienes, it's about children--they have to grow up into the society ant them to maintain We voted on this"

"And I vote to carry one baby of yours Just one"

"Please leave," said Sel

"I'ical one, since I'm Jewish and so are you"

"Please go Close the door behind you I have work to do"

"You can't turn me away," she said "It would hurt the colony"

"So would killing you," said Sel, "but you're er you stay here to torture me"

"It's only torture because you want me"