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Spacemen Never Die!, by Morris Hershman
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Title: Spacemen Never Die!
Author: Morris Hershman
Release Date: September 9, 2009 [EBook #29947]
Language: English
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Henry knew his wife had been married once before; now he expected her to start a new life with him--but to her the past was alive, and--
SPACEMEN NEVER DIE!
By Morris Hershman
Henry Weller stood facing a huge three-dimensional picture on the wall of his dining room.
"Can't we get rid of it?" he asked, turning to his wife. "I mean, with all due respect, of course."
No man enjoys coming into his dining room and having to sit at meals and look at a full-sized picture of his wife's first husband arriving on Venus. Fair's fair, but such a set-up is ridiculous.
"No," Phoebe shook her blonde head. "Don Manton loved me and he was famous. I like to be reminded of the days when my picture was in all the telepapers and my face on so many telescreens."
She might just as well have called him a tattered nonentity, though Henry was doing pretty well as a foreman in the local humandroid factory. He was stop