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thinks that, for him, this was once one of her chief attractions.

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"This is Jerome Nkoro in the critic's corner at New York CommNet

тАШMorning Magazine,тАЩ and today I'm going to be talking about тАШSlow,

Slow Burn,тАЩ Honey P├нlar's new moddy from A.T.B.

"In these days, when, thanks to surgical and biological wonders

we've come to take for granted, men and women routinely maintain

their youthful looks well past their seventieth birthday, it probably

shouldn't matter that our number-one fantasy girl has just

celebrated her forty-fifth. But it's something to think about. Honey

P├нlar is forty-five. Does that make you feel old? It makes me feel like

the last of the dinosaurs.




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 Slow, Slow Burn
by George Alec Effinger



"I can remember having holos of Honey P├нlar in my bedroom when

I was twelve, alongside my Death-to-Argentina football and my scale

model of the Mars colony. My first sexual experience was a dream in

which Honey couldn't remember her locker combination. And now

this is her thirty-ninth moddy, and she's old enough to be a

grandmother....

"But don't get me wrong, I still think Honey is the most exciting

woman in the world. I've left word with my secretary that if she

calls, she can have my home phone number any time. And my