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androids didn’t have tear ducts but Abbott’s people cried, even the men, as they watched the cave become a living thing that resembled a giant jellyfish.
    I felt sad but excited at the same time and wondered where and when we would end up.
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 10
    We moved through space with the swimming motion we always experienced , living our lives inside the city within the cave and the cave, once again, gave us everything we needed.
    We had births and then were saddened and surprised with a few deaths.  We didn’t realize that someone could die in such a healing place.   I wondered if these folks would reincarnate somewhere else as babies or would they simply cease to exist.
    Irene was the oldest of all of us and she was still alive and I had more questions than answers.  The cave wasn’t giving up any answers.
    We didn’t worry about time or the passage of time but when we started floating like a feather downward Josie was 15 years old .  She had been singing with Joe’s band and we discovered she had a beautiful singing voice.  Her singing added a whole new dimension to the band.  Her voice had a haunting , far away sound to it, if that makes any sense.
    The jellyfish looking thing landed, once again, where there was no one else around.  It became opaque once again so it looked like a cave.
    Of course most everyone wanted to go explore but both Irene and I had a feeling that we needed to keep the group small.  So, the group consisted of Ina and Robert, Irene, Marion and Rory, and Joe and me.
    We hiked down a one-lane blacktop road for a couple of miles and heard Jazz before we got to the mai n street of a medium-sized city.  It was night time and the streets were live with music and dancing.  We walked down the sidewalk and saw block after block of nightclubs.
    Above the nightclubs were balconies made of heavily d ecorated wrought iron.  The cars didn’t look like any I had seen before.  They looked older than the cars did in 1973 where I had left when I had died and ended up on Joe’s planet.
    The nightclubs all had their doors open and men were standing in the doorways telling everyone to come in.  I looked inside some of them and saw women on stages taking their clothes off.
    “I’m glad we didn’t bring the kids,” I said to Joe and I noticed he was standing there looking inside one of the clubs with his mouth hanging open.
    I elbowed him in the ribs and he grinned at me and winked, “Don’t worry, baby, I’m just looking.  I’ve never seen anything like this before.   Some of these women look like men made to look like women. ”
    “I haven’t seen anything like this before either ,” I said, “I thought at first we were back on earth at another time, but I’m not so sure now.”
    “You know what, Ashley?  I like this music.  I would really like for our band to try some of this.  I think I could write some good lyrics for this and Josie could sing like that woman in that club there.”
    I listened as we stood in the doorway of the nightclub, “You’re right, Joe.  Josie ’s voice is sultry and low just like this woman ’s .”
    What happened next was so horrible it’s hard to put into words.  When I turned to look at Joe, I could only see the very middle of his face, everything else, the street, the clubs, the other people, were a blur.  Then the in focus part of his face got smaller and smaller until he was nothing but a blur like everything else and then there was nothing.
    The next thing I knew, I was being laid out on a seat in a booth inside the very club we had been looking into.  A large man with thin gray hair and wearing an apron was wheezing as he laid me down.
    “Are you all right, lady?” He asked between gasps.
    I tried to get up but he pushed me back down, “Let me get you something to drink.  You just relax.”
    After he walked off, I sat up and looked around.  The place was crowded and I realized I had been mistaken.  It wasn’t the same