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1. Brothers and sisters - England - Manchester - Fiction. 2. Manchester (England) - Fiction. 3. Virtual reality - Fiction. [PR6064.045V871996] 823'.914-dc20 95-41014 CIP First published in Great Britain by Ringpull Press Ltd First St. Martin's Griffin Edition: February 1996

Mandy came out of the all-night Vurt-U-Want, clutching a bag of goodies.

Close by was a genuine dog, flesh and blood mix; the kind you don't see much any more. A real collector's item. It was tethered to the post of a street sign. The sign read NO GO. Slumped under the sign was a robo-crusty. He had a thick headful of droidlocks and a dirty handwritten card - "hungry n homeless, please help." Mandy, all twitching steps and head-jerks, scurried past him. The crusty raised his sad little message ever so slightly and the thin pet dog whined.

Through the van's window I saw Mandy mouth something at them; "Fuck off, crusties. Get a life." Something like that.

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