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Subject: {ASSM} History Lesson
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:10:02 -0400
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When I found out about my illness, I thought my time was about over. How
wrong I was. Dr. Elgin of the Harvard University history department had
pioneered a new concept. His brain child was to pass history down to future
generations by preserving living people. He believed future historians would
want to talk to someone from our time just as he would want to talk to a
contemporary of Caesar.

"You can only learn so much from books and pictures," the good Dr. Elgin
would say with his silly grin.

The technology for a long deep freeze had been worked out by our space
people. The process didn't really involve freezing, but that was the term
used to describe it. Nobody had been down for a thousand or more years, but
the theory was sound. All the professor needed was volunteers, so Dr. Elgin
put out the word. When a person of a certain type of background was
diagnosed with a terminal illness, that person would be given the chance to
volunteer for the living history program. The selected individual, along
with papers, books, movies, and other artifacts would be placed in a time
capsule and frozen for future thaw. The plan was to select two people every
five years: indefinitely.

I was surprised to be offered the chance. I was no historian. My career had
been spent in the military. The professor said I was an ideal representative
for this time period, as so much of our recent history involved military
activities.

It sounded like a chance for one last adventure, so I volunteered. The other
individual selected was a micro biologist named Carol Atkins. Carol was
slowly dying of a progressive brain tumor and I was in the very early phases
of a degenerative nervous system disorder which would eventually stop my
heart.

"You two are perfect!" the Professor declared.

The carrot they dangled in front of us was the prospect that future medicine
could cure our maladies. Carol and I knew when we were revived, we might
still die. But at least before we died, we could provide insights as to how
the world was when we were frozen. Dr Elgin and many others thought the
living history program was a great idea. I did it as sort of a joke. This
way I would out live them all.

I had to wrap up all my affairs as if I had really died. For all practical
purposes, I was going to die. It was odd selling off all my stuff and saying
goodbye to my few close friends. After I had closed the book on my life, I
moved into a room at a facility on the Harvard campus. Carol and I were to
spend the next month weeks getting ready and then take the big freeze.

When I was first introduced to Carol, I was very surprised. For some reason,
I had assumed she would be much older or sick or something. She was only
forty, very pretty, and looked so healthy. No one could tell by looking at
her hard body and her thick shinning dark hair that anything was wrong.

"Spending a thousand years with you sounds like fun," I told her.

She blushed and said I wasn't so bad either. We were supposed to spend our
remaining time getting up to speed with current history, but all I could
think about were Carol's soft calve muscles. She wore dresses than came down
past her knees and stopped just above her calves. She never wore hose, and
her legs were always so smooth and shinny. Carol took this preparation work
serious, but to me it was all a bit of a farce.

All the reading was boring me to death. I didn't want to take a thousand
year nap without having a little fun. So one day I just flat out told Carol
what I was thinking.

"God damn you're pretty," I said. "Screw these silly magazines, let's go
dancing."

It took a few minutes, but I convinced her we needed to have some fun. We
snuck out and went to dinner and then to a live music club. We danced and
danced and I looked at her great legs. The more I got to know her, the more
I liked her. She was so full of life and her face lit up when she having
fun.

I asked her about her past, but she didn't want to talk about it. She
obviously had taken a few tough knocks, but she hadn't let them ruin her or
make her bitter.

When I told her she was pretty, she smiled and looked at me like no one had
ever told her that before. She was so fresh and full of clean energy. For a
while Carol made me forget I was dying.

"Where have you been all my life?" I asked her. She just smiled and kept on
dancing. I couldn't take my eyes off her.

When finally the band played a slow song, I had a chance to hold her close.
I thought maybe she would try and find a way to get back to our table, but
she put her hand on my arm and laid her head on my shoulder and moved into
me. I put my hand on the back of her soft hair and gently caressed her. We
moved in a slow circle, and she ran her hands all over my back. When I
pulled her in tight, she came in close and held me as I held her. The band
played and we slowly danced and I took in her soft warmth. As the song was
winding down she lifted her head and looked into me. The lights from the
ceiling reflected off her shining brown eyes.

While we looked at each other something happened to me. Something which hadn
't happened in a very long time. I could feel it, but I can't explain it.
Someplace deep inside of me opened and Carol came in. Her sprit seemed to
flow into me and it made me feel good. There were people all around us and
the band was playing a faster song, but we kept on slow dancing like we were
the only two people in the world.

She wanted to ask me a question, but I didn't wait. With her that close to
me there was only one thing to do. As my lips touched hers, she opened to
me. A little at first, but more as the kiss went on. Even as the band
started to rock and roll, we held that wonderful kiss. Finally, we pulled
way from each other, and our eyes locked.

All of a sudden I realized I was falling hard and fast for this girl. She
could see it in my eyes and she smiled at me. It was a warm smile, a real
smile full of affection. Maybe she was falling for me as well.

We each had a little to drink, but it wasn't the drink which was carrying
us. There really was something developing between Carol and me. Maybe we
were life rafts to each other. Something a dying person grabs on to so as to
keep death at bay. That night, Carol and I celebrated being alive.

Carol was shorter than me and she fit perfectly into my arms. While we
danced, I didn't hear the band or see the other people. We held each other
and revolved in a small circle. Her body against mine made me so glad I
still breathed. As I ran my hands over her, I became very excited and Carol
could feel me pressing against her. She didn't seem to mind. After we had
danced for a good while, she pulled her head back and looked into me. She
had something to say, and this time I waited to hear her.

"Are you scared?" she asked.

I hadn't thought about it. I had almost died so many times, I was used to
the idea. She wanted a real answer, not something smart ass. I put my hands
on the sides of her head and pressed in a little.

"No, I'm not scared. And don't you worry. I'm going to be right there with
you the whole time."

"But what if the future is bleak and ugly? Or what if they don't want us?"

"Well, we will have each other," I said.

She smiled a bit. I think what I said made her feel better. This time when
our lips met, she was open all the way. Kissing her made me dizzy. My mind
swirled as I held her and tasted her and felt her warmth flowing into me.

I guess we were making a sense on the dance floor. A tall woman tapped me on
the shoulder.

"You two are so in love," she said with a big smile.

I put my arm around Carol and we walked back to our table. Before I could
sit down, Carol whispered in my ear, "Let's go."

She held my hand the whole way back in the car. It seemed like we had been
lovers forever. We were like two parts that fit and locked together.

We went to her room and our clothes just fell off. We didn't need them. She
pressed her warm soft flesh against me and we went right back to that slow
dance. Time stopped for us that night. Slowly we moved in a circle, holding
and caring for each other.

After a while I moved us to her bed and laid down on top of her. Carol laid
on her back and her legs naturally came up and open. I wanted to taste her
so I went down between her delicious thighs. Her legs where firm and
beautiful all the way from her lovely feet up her inner thighs and to her
sweet warm pussy. I pressed my mouth to her and she tasted as wonderful as
she looked. She was hot, wet and very tender. As I licked her, she started
to breathe quickly. She tried to pull me up by the hair, but I kept licking
her. Finally she put both her hands into my hair and pulled so hard I came
up.

I'd been with many women, but Carol was different. I wanted to have sex with
her, but more than that I wanted to hold her and please her.

I put my hands on either side of her and held myself above her chest. I
looked into her soft brown eyes and she looked back at me. I wanted to look
at her as I entered her. She knew what I was thinking and she opened her
eyes and her legs wide.  She used her hand to put me inside. I pressed
myself deep inside her and then I laid down on her breasts. We kissed each
other and I slowly started to move in and out of her warm body.

"Ohhh." she said as she rubbed the back of my legs with the soft bottoms of
her tender feet. She wrapped her arms tightly around me and we settled into
a nice rhythm.

"You're so hard..you're so hard.Oh!...that's good.oh that's good."

Carol held me tight and I held her tighter and we made love for hours.
Whenever I looked into her open eyes and felt my hard cock in her soft warm
body, my soul moved closer and closer to her. The passion between us grew
and the sex became intense.

I forgot all about who I was and where I was and what I was about to do.
Carol and I  blended into each other.

Each time she came, she bit the side of my face or my ear or my neck. A few
times, she bit me pretty hard. She could tell it wasn't easy for me to come,
so she pushed me out of her and went down in between my legs. She used her
mouth to get me lubricated, then she used her warm hands to stroke me at
very fast firm pace. She alternated between stoking me and sucking me until
I was ready to bust. Just before I was about to unload, I pulled out of her
mouth and laid back on top of her.

"Ahhh.." I gasped as I unloaded deep inside her warm soft body. She gently
squeezed me with her inner muscles until every drop had come out. I pulled
out of her and rolled onto my back. Carol pulled up the sheets and laid her
warm breasts on my chest. Before I fell asleep, Carol asked me a question.

"Do you remember what you said? About how you would be there the whole time?
Did you mean that?"

I had spend so much of my life looking for a woman like Carol and I find her
a few days before my dying body goes into a freezer. What words could I use
to tell her? How could I make her believe? I brushed her hair from the side
of her face and looked into her open eyes and her wide open soul.

"I promise I'll be there, Carol. I swear it."

"Okay," she said and laid her soft head back on my chest.

Her gentle breathing slowed as she drifted off to sleep. I stayed awake. All
of a sudden, dying seemed so real. Now I had a reason to live and I wanted
to live. As I caressed her soft hair and felt her warm breathe on my chest,
I wondered what the future would hold for us. Would the medicine of our
children's children  cure us so we could live out our lives? Would we have
time to be lovers?

In the few days we had left, Carol and realized how lucky we were to have
this last opportunity to be with another person. It was like a gift from
above. We both seized on the chance and we were inseparable. The staff
involved in the project saw we were spending all our time with each other
and very little time reading about current events. No one said anything;
everyone let have us have our time together.

Finally the day arrived. A special above ground facility had been built on a
solid rock foundation. The structure was designed to last a long time, it
was water proof, and it had many compartments for the others who would
follow us.

We shook hands with everyone and then Carol and I shared a kiss meant to
last a thousand years.

"I'll be there when you wake up," I told her.

Every one clapped.

Carol and I were placed in separate cocoon like structures, along with
personal possessions and other items. As the deep freeze process took hold,
my mind slowly went blank.

I can't really say that I dreamed. Maybe I did. I remember bits and pieces
and small fragments. The first thing I really remember was a small light in
my eyes and the sounds of people talking. They were speaking English, but in
a strange accent.

A man's voice asking "Does he live?" were the first words I recognized.

"This tissue is pristine!" I heard an excited voice say.

Slowly my eyes focused on the white walls of the room. I tried to clear my
dry throat and move  my arms, but my body was sluggish.

A man was standing above me and I was laying on a bed.

"Who are you?' he asked. "Do you know who you are?"

After I coughed a few times, I managed to speak.

"Where is Carol?' I asked. "Is she alright? I want to see her."

"My name is Ferdinand. You need to rest, I'll come back later," the man
said.

You would think after a thousand years, I would be ready to go, but I did
need to sleep. This time it was a real sleep with real dreams. When I woke
up, I felt much better and I was really hungry. A very pretty young lady was
kind enough to get me whatever I wanted. She very pretty but she didn't say
anything.

When finally I could stand, I got up and walked around.

"How long have I been out?" She had no idea.

"Where am I?" All she could do was smile.

Ferdinand came back and he was very excited.

"I can't believe it!" he said. "We have studied the materials in the capsule
you were in. You really are a living human from the past. That's
 incredible!"

"Where is Carol?"

"Yes of course. She's okay."

"Take me to her."

Ferdinand and a group of his assistants took me to a tunnel which lead to
the very room where Carol and I had been stored. All the chambers were
opened and empty except one. Carol was still inside.

"We don't know what happened to the others," Ferdinand said.

"Don't worry, she is fine," Ferdinand said.

"When are you going to wake her up?" I asked.

"Well, I hadn't thought about it."

"Wake her up now," I said.

"But I don't need her now. She can.."

"Wake her up right now!" I said.

"Okay, okay," Ferdinand said. "Just don't get excited."

A team of technicians unlocked Carols cocoon. Over the next few hours, she
was revived. The guys who built these machines did a good job. When she
started to wake up, I was there.

"Hey beautiful," I said. "I've been think about you."

Her throat was too dry to talk, but she smiled that same wonderful smile. I
was so happy to see her.

We were kept in a closed area of what I assumed was a hospital for the next
few days. I had to keep explaining to people caring for us that we were
sleeping in the same bed for a reason. I told them Carol and I were lovers,
but they didn't seem to get it. These people looked fine, but there was
something different about them.

I was so in love with Carol, I didn't really care. As long as I was with
her, everything was perfect.

Apparently, Ferdinand was the big boss, but there didn't seem to be any
command structure. He told everyone what to do and they did it. Whatever we
wanted we had.

Carol wanted to see what was outside, so Ferdinand arranged for us to go for
a ride in a shuttle. As we rose into the sky, Carol and I were stunned by
the vast size of the city. Huge white building rose high in the air in all
directions. Everything was so clean and bright. Millions and millions of
people were in the streets and flying in the sky. Carol asked to see a park,
so they took us to a huge forest just outside the city.

The trees were massive and the foliage lush and beautiful. To my eyes, it
appeared as if humanity had come a long way. We asked if we could be alone,
and they said sure. Carol and I spend a wonderful day in the park. We found
a nice shady place with soft grass and tall trees.

"Looks like this worked after all," I said.

"It's all so beautiful," Carol said.

"Do you remember that night we went dancing?" I asked.

"Oh my, that was such along ago," she said with a smile. "But to me it seems
like yesterday."

Under the cool shade of the trees, Carol and I made love. I had never been
happier.

At sunset, a shuttle picked us up. Carol and I decided it was time for a
talk with Ferdinand.

We met in his huge office which sat atop the largest building in the city.
Ferdinand dismissed his attendants so the three of us could talk.

"How long have we been asleep?" Carol asked.

"My best estimate would be five thousand years, but I can't be exact."

"Was Dr. Elgin right? Are you interested in people from the past?" I asked.

"I'm certainly interested, but not in the way you think," he said.

"There is one thing you can clear up for me. Is it true people used to throw
away healthy unborn children? I've seen evidence of this, but I can't
believe it really happened."

"It's true," I said.

"Millions of healthy children thrown away? That's hard for me to
 understand."

"That's you only question?" I asked.

"What about the other people, maybe they would have questions about the
past," Carol said.

"Other people?" Ferdinand asked. He stood up and walked over to the glass.
"You mean all these?" he said as he pointed out the window to the vast
streets full of people.

"The only human beings on the planet are in this room. You see, there was a
great war. Not your kind of war," he said to me. "Carol's kind of war. A
final battle between humans and microbes. For years we stayed one step
ahead. Finally they caught up with us. Nature gave us a deadly rapidly
mutating virus nothing could prevent. The humans the virus didn't kill, it
rendered sterile. The only option left to us was cloning. We managed to get
a 99.1% copy of a real human. Unfortunately, over time each clone lost
something until finally we didn't even look or feel human."

"All these people are clones?" Carol asked.

"Oh no, no. When we realized the cloning was a failure, we tried something
different. We used our engineering talents to create copies. As the few real
humans and the early generation clones died, we replaced them with copies.
We wanted to keep our civilization going. What you see on the streets are
just copies. They have no soul. They're only good for keeping the machines
running."

"That's why I was so excited to find you. You're real human beings! I
corrected your health problems while you were still recovering. You two are
perfect! Carol has many good eggs and your sperm is excellent. I was going
to use your tissue to restart the cloning process."

"Use our tissue?" Carol asked.

"I want to ask you a question." Ferdinand said. "Do you love each other?"

"Yes," we said a the same time.

"Do you have enough love for the whole world?"

"We don't understand," I said.

"I was going to start the cloning process today, but I decided to let you go
out in the shuttle. I watched you in the park. When I saw the way you looked
at each other, for a minute, if only a brief instant, I felt human. It had
been so long, I had forgotten about love. You helped me remember what it
meant to care for someone, to need someone, to want someone, to be someone.
Sure we preserved our machines, but we lost ourselves. Our science wasn't
good enough to create a soul. What are we without a soul?"

Ferdinand sat across from us and began to remove prosthetics from his face.
First his eye brows, then his nose, then his forehead. As each piece was
removed, a hideous and deformed face emerged. When he was done, a hairless,
grotesque creature with sunken red eyes and paste grey skin sat before us.

"I'm the last of the clones, a sad echo of the past." he said. "I see no
point in trying this again."

Carol had a hard time looking at him. We both felt for sorry for him.

"So you see, our past becomes our future. It's all up to you two now. I'm
not going to clone you. I am going to find some hole to crawl in and die.
Before I do, I'll show you how to run things. From this office, you can
control the whole planet."

"How will we know what to do?" Carol asked.

"Have as many children as you can. Raise them with love. Give us back our
soul."

Ferdinand showed us how to run the machines our children's children had
created and then he went away. We never saw him again.

Carol and I had nine beautiful children. We were able to make slight DNA
modifications so our offspring could successfully have their own children.

Our future looks good.

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