VIIWE GOT BACK OUT THROUGH the checkpoint gate with no problem. I had official ID. So did she.
A few minutes earlier, I let her touch my Fed ID and look at how it was made. Then she took a Styrofoam cup, half full of cold coffee, and made it disappear into one hand. Didn’t spill a drop.
She sat with her eyes shut for a few seconds, and then put her palms together. When she opened them, they held a laminated photo ID of herself with all the same type and seals, even the official hologram and magnetic stripe.
I took it from her and compared them side-by-side. They were both suitably worn from use. Basically identical marks on each. That was the only way you could tell one of them was fake. But if you come right down to it, every ID in the world is fake. Only the human love in each of us i
