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in that day
and age but they did, and I was ever so happy to get out of that house and
share a room with two other girls instead of eight.
    After graduation, I was assigned to the SS
Discovery.  I wasn't all that excited to be in space.  I was actually hoping to
get a position at a land-based VA hospital but space was where I was needed so
off I went. 
    My doctor was Jerry Waldman who was cute
as a bug's ear.  He was about the same height as me with curly brown hair and
big old glasses that made his wide brown eyes seem enormous. 
    Our sickbay was relatively quiet, most
everything we saw was space sickness or flu.  I had a lot of time to browse the
internet and ready cheesy romance novels which were about the only kind of book
that I could manage to finish.  I swallowed them like water.
    Within two weeks of boarding the
Discovery, I developed space sickness myself which was pretty lame considering
I was there to take care of the people who got it.  I had no idea how quickly
it would set in and how nasty it was.  For about three weeks, there wasn't
anything I could do but lie around and let the machines massage my muscles
while I read my books.  Jerry tried to keep me entertained in his free time but
without a nurse, he ended up doing just about everything while I watched
helplessly. 
    During that time period, a new ensign came
into our sickbay and announced she was there to inventory.  Her name was Katie
Golden and she too was as cute as a bug's ear.  She had curly blonde hair and
deep blue eyes and was about half a head shorter than Dr. Jerry.  Well even I
could see from my perch in bed that Dr. Jerry fell head over heels, hopelessly
in love with her.  He got all flustered and his face turned bright red anytime
she spoke to him.  He followed her around and dashed frantically whenever she
questioned where something was.
    “He's stuck on you like a junebug on a
sow's ear,” I said to her one afternoon when Jerry rushed off to the store room
to find a missing caliper.
    “That's silly,” she replied when she had
finished counting thermometers.  “I'm Katie Golden, by the way.  How much
longer are you stuck in bed?”
    “Probably another two weeks,” I said. 
“I'm Caroline Adamson.  How long you been aboard?”
    “About two months.”  She sat down next to
my bed.  “I didn't get space sickness though.”
    “You work out every day?”
    “Yeah,” she replied and brushed some of
her curls out of her eyes.  “I decided to do mixed martial arts.  I have always
wanted to have a black belt.”
    “I got about four black belts in my closet
but I don't think any of them would fit your tiny little waist.”
    She blushed all over just like Dr. Jerry. 
What a cute little couple they would make.
    After Katie finished the inventory and
moved on to another area, she still came by to visit me while I remained in
bed.  Poor old Jerry thought she was coming to visit him.
    “You like him?”  I'd ask as soon as he got
busy and stopped listening to our conversation.
    “He's a nice guy,” she replied.  “But I'm
not interested in him if that's what you're asking.”
    “You got another boyfriend?”
    “No…well…”
    “Well?”
    She blushed.
    “You do!” I exclaimed.  “You got yourself
some little honeypot lover back home?”
    “Well…not exactly…”
    That's about all I could ever get out of
her.  We became fine friends anyway and just about every time we had a few
hours shore leave, Katie and I would head out to the base and grab lunch and do
a bit of shopping.  Jerry often tagged along and sometimes, I had a guy of my
own to balance all wheels on our little wagon.
    Over the next few years, Katie rose
through the ranks of command just about faster than anyone could possibly
rise.  She even won herself a medal for saving the ship after some darn thing
on the engineering deck caught on fire and nearly blew up.  Katie happened to
be in the right place at the right time to hotwire the fire