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Title: Exile from Space

Author: Judith Merril

Release Date: March 16, 2010 [EBook #31661]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe November 1956.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed.

[_"They" worried about the impression she'd make. Who_ could
_imagine that she'd fall in love, passionately, the way others of her
blood must have done?_]

exile from space

_by ... Judith Merril_

Who _was_ this strange girl who had been born in this
place--and still it wasn't her home?...

* * * * *

I don't know where they got the car. We made three or four stops
before the last one, and they must have picked it up one of those
times. Anyhow, they got it, but they had to make a license plate,
because it had the wrong kind on it.

They made me some clothes, too--a skirt and blouse and shoes that
looked just like the ones we saw on television. They couldn't make me
a lipstick or any of those things, because there was no way to figure
out just what the chemical composition was. And they decided I'd be as
well off without any driver's license or automobile registration as I
would be with papers that weren't exactly perfect, so they didn't
bother about making those either.

They were worried about what to do with my hair, and even thought
about cutting it short, so it would look more like the women on
television, but that was one time I was way ahead of them. I'd seen
more shows than anyone else, of course--I watched them almost every
minute, from the time they told me I was going--and there was one
where I'd seen a way to make braids and put them around the top of
your head. It wasn't very comfortable, but I practiced at