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Just seeing this, now, really puts it into perspective. She's so graceful, so beautiful, and so totally and completely out of your league. Your AI girlfriend was always right. You never even had a chance with her. Why are you still dwelling on this? Better question, why are you watching this at all?
“I'm over it.”
Why are you dwelling on the past? She never even showed any interest in you at all you lug. And yet because you jerked off to her a few times, you think she loved you back? You bet your ass when she was alone, in bed, late at night, she never ever once thought of you.
“I'm over her.”
You turn to the screen one last time as their dance reaches its climax- Cijan holding up Kima high in the air with one arm, the music reaching its peak as the implication of the man and woman bond culminating in the creation of new life. You see Kima's smile as she wows everyone in the Hegemony. And you know what? You're happy for her.
“Computer, turn this off. I need to focus on my studying and exercise. Set me a 30 minute timer for my next bodyweight exercise so I don't forget to keep limber for tomorrow's combat training. Until them, I will be meditating.”
<span class="mu-b">”Acknowledged. You've shown great initiative today, Radjo, your supervisors will be notified of your work ethic.”</span>
As you assume the Lotus position and close your eyes, you think of what your teacher, Tetak, had told you. It was the same thing he said when he made you quit your pornography habit, and the same thing you thought when you threw out your last AI girlfriend backup. <span class="mu-i">Your eyes have so much more important things to see.</span>
Even though, with your eyes closed and the fact you aren't blind, thus you can't do Starsight at all, you aren't seeing much. It's more of a mental thing...
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