Appointment in Sinai

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“No, I am not going to plug in,” Debbie Kettering said firmly. “I’m much too busy.”

Her husband gave her his patented lazy smile. “Come on, Deb, you don’t have anything to do that can’t wait a half-hour or so.”

His smile had always been her undoing. But this time she intended to stand firm. “No!” she insisted. “I won’t.”

She was not a small woman, but standing in their living room next to Doug made her look tiny. A stranger might think they were the school football hero and the cutest cheerleader on the squad, twenty years afterward. In reality, Doug was a propulsion engineer (a real rocket scientist) and Deborah an astronaut.

An ex-astronaut. Her resignation was on the computer screen in her bedroom office, ready to be e-mailed to her boss at the Johnson Space Center.

“What’ve you got to do that’s so blasted important?” Doug asked, still grinning at her as he headed for the sofa, his favorite Saturday afternoon haunt.

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