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two chairs on one side of the table. A woman with a makeup kit briefly inspected me, adjusting my hair, then worked on Selena for a minute or so.
    “I’m intrigued that you’ve chosen this look for her,” Christina said.
    “I have a teenage daughter. Bringing her home looking like . . . like you guys had her might not have gone over so well.”
    “Of course. Are you ready?”
    “Are we doing this live?”
    “No. We’re going to take it back to Vertex and produce a promotional video from this and the other interview.”
    She sat down in the third chair, then motioned to the guy with the camera. When the light came on, she looked over at us.
    “I’m here at Vertex Stadium speaking with Paul Dawson, the winner of our very first eGirl giveaway, and the proud owner of our first eGirl5. Paul, how are you doing?”
    “I’m fine, thanks.”
    “You’re probably still a little in shock, I would imagine.”
    “Um, you could say that, yeah.”
    “And over here is Selena, our newest eGirl. Selena, this has been a big day for you as well.”
    “Yes, it has. I’m so excited to be with Paul.”
    “So the question I’m sure that’s on everyone’s minds, Paul: How did you find her?”
    “Well, to be honest, I wasn’t even trying. I didn’t even think she was the eGirl.”
    “She’s really amazingly lifelike, isn’t she?”
    I glanced over at Selena, who smiled at us.
    “Yeah, she is. I just started talking to her, about everything that had been happening in the stadium with the giveaway. I mentioned it must have been hard dealing with the men asking every woman they saw if she was the eGirl. And she said, “No one’s asked me.’”
    “Because we had her hidden in plain sight.”
    “She didn’t look like an eGirl at all. I just felt bad for her, wondering if she was upset at the lack of attention. I thought I’d just ask, just to be friendly.”
    “You never had any idea she wasn’t human?”
    “No. Not until she told me.”
    It went on like that for a few minutes. She had Selena demonstrate how she could change her appearance on the fly, then revert back to what I’d done to her. I wasn’t sure I was ever going to get used to this.
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    They took some pictures of the two of us, then finally let us go. We sat down in the seats up front of the box to watch the rest of the game.
    The 49ers were way ahead, so I went back into the Vertex app to explore the rest of the settings. In Personality, I realized there were different tiers of settings. Youthful and Mature, the two we’d been through, were in a small group at the top labeled Primary Personalities. But under that was a long list of secondary ones, things like Sassy, Fun-loving, Moody, Serious, Sultry, Shy, Motherly, Seductive, and so on.
    “Some of those come along with the skills packages,” Selena said. “That’s why you have so many of them there.”
    When I tapped Motherly, another menu dropped down: With Me | With Others | With All. Before I could do anything, a checkmark appeared beside With Others.
    “I assume you mean that for your kids.”
    “The boys, but not Alisa so much. Not right away.”
    “I understand.”
    I scrolled down a ways. “What do Sultry and Seductive do?”
    “If you check both of those, that will result in my flirting with you constantly. They came with the Lovemaking package.”
    “Okay. But discreetly?”
    “I can be discreet.”
    I tapped them both, obviously selecting With Me when that popped up. Selena squirmed in her seat and her eyes lowered a bit.
    “Mmm. Okay.”
    She put a hand on my leg and began caressing me slowly. She smiled, then inclined her head toward me.
    “Do you have any idea the things that Lovemaking package put in my head?” she whispered. “It’s going to take us years to get through it all. Years .”
    I swallowed uneasily. I tried to imagine what sex—did it really even qualify as sex ?—with Selena might be like.
    I had always thought of the earlier eGirls as animatronic