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going to have to get a medical degree, and certification from the System. Can you still do that?”
“If you pass the exams, yes. The courses can be fed into your brain in the usual man-ner.”
“So, I guess I’ll get back to school. Keep his body in a stasis chamber; this could take a while. Oh -“ I had a sudden inspiration. “I’m going to move into the penthouse suite at the Ritz. The department will pay the bill, if that’s even necessary. Since I’m the last human being, I might as well live it up.”
“Perhaps the last,” Magarian said. “There are two manned deep-space probes due to return in about 150 years.”
“I’ll be dead by then,” I said.
“About that…?”
I wasn’t sure what he meant for a mo-ment. I sat down on the edge of the examin-ing table, feeling the cold met
