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May 27, 2005

From the Comments: Jim Parkinson

Tim never understood the science behind the dimensional portal. Something about submicroscopic singularities beaded on a cosmic string. Frankly, he didn’t care. Tim had been told why Portal Station was orbiting the Sun but he hadn’t paid much attention.

Tim was Portal Station’s Lead Sanitation Officer. Tim cleaned the toilets.

Sometimes another group of young people arrived in shiny new spacesuits. But a quick trip through the dimensional portal made people age. By next week those that survived the trip would be old and infirm but their eyes would reflect the wonders they had seen.

And Tim cleaned the toilets.

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