<P>He'd always felt that there was something more to this world, something more than the present and the plans that men had devised for his life. Whatever that purpose was, he wanted to fulfill it, had worked hard trying to fulfill it. Life was a process, the pastors said, a partnership between you and God. When men broke that partnership, they broke the world. Kat, Guardian, PriCor; they had broken that partnership, and had broken his world, his life, his dreams.
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<P>Jerrod felt his shattered leg bone be knitted back together again by the medical suite. Nerves and veins were being bundled together into clear plastic tubes which threaded their way safely around the series of metal socket joints that mechanical arms were sliding into the space where his knee used to be.
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<P>"No."