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10 You land on a deserted planet, leave your transpporter, and sit down in an empty space. You close your eyes and begin to meditate on the planetearth. Going without food or water (which you don’t have anyway ) for days and then weeks, you concentrate on the planet and your life there. You imagine all the little details of it; you unlock all your memories. Several times you fell it coming closer and closer, you can almost reach out and touch it. Each time it happens, you get ready to open your eyes, but then the sensation recides from you. Finally, after you’ve lost track of how long you’ve been sitting, yoou feel that Earth is really there, all around you, you can hearit, smell it, taste it. You wait a moment to make sure. Then, you open your eyes and--- THE END