Was almost but nit quite entirely unlike tea. He attempted to reason with the thing. "Tea " he said. "Share and Enjoy.

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Was just an oil town with a big cattle pasture north of Clear Lake where the Manned Spacecraft Center should have been. El Lago the Taylor housing development had never been built. He even drove out to Atlantic City where he'd first met Fay a couple of decades ago. He couldn't find her in the phone book. She was probably living under some married name he figured. He gave up. He tried a few times to strike up relationships with other women here. He found it hard to get close to anyone though. He always felt he needed to guard what he was saying. This wasn't his home after all. So he lived pretty much alone. It was bearable. It even got easier as he got older. Oddly he missed walking on the Moon more than anything else more than anything about the world.
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