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to spend than to earn. Civilizations rise one person at a time, but they can fall all at once. If a whole world rises, yet overlooks one lower being, that being could begin the toppling of the whole, no matter what the number involved or the length of time required. “One tiny seed could replace a jungle with an orchard. Yet one tiny virus can blight in a week that whole orchard and turn it back to jungle. In life, the good seed is the love of pure learning, and the virus is willful ignorance. All things pass away to those who are involved in the evolution, but learning remains, and learning and love are halves of each other. “At this moment, and only for a few moments, you love me and I love you. This is merely momentary, an outpost of love, and shall pass behind us as we move on. But we still love, and love is our final destination, no matter where we set our course. In a few hours, we shall have forgotten each other as entities. “Adam, because of this awakened love you now feel, you will be seeking it forever. I was sent to you merely to light the spark, so do not feel empty, because I promise that for you it will be like swimming out of a pond into a great lake. And after that, Adam, after that, into a shoreless sea. You have not missed out on such love, not for one minute of it, for don’t you see? No matter how late in life it comes it is like eternity, spreading both ways, into the Veo. toe. » With those words Vega became silent, as she sat gazing into the emptiness ahead of her, trying to envisage the aurora of woman’s love for man in its most highly evolved state, which even to her lay yet in the unreachable horizons ahead. Adam was spellbound by her motionless beauty. Then he managed to speak, just above a whisper. “Oh, no, Vega. I do not choose to leave you or forget you. No matter what they have prepared for me, I shall need your nearness. Please add your desire to mine and make it the free 63 VEGA ALERTS ADAM past and into the future.”