I basically walked away from everything when I volunteered to join the military. My parents were dead. My home was destroyed. All I wanted to do was go kick the Shang to the other side of the galaxy. And I didn\u2019t want to take anybody with me. The AIs were busy helping to rebuild International Falls, and one day I just walked into the recruiting office and signed up. I was in Texas before sunset, embarking on a whole new world. I found Betty and Jasmine and we went to War. Yes, I missed the old AIs I\u2019d built. And I missed Red. But Betty had chosen to be born to work with me. And Jasmine chose to live to work with me. Yearning after old AIs would have been\u2026 a betrayal of their choices. Only a real bad partner would allow himself to do that, so I did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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