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A young rebel returns from the war, beset with questions about mortality and purpose in life. He's no longer the carefree playboy his long waiting space princess girlfriend knew. She dumps him for an up and coming freighter industrialist when rebel kid (Duke?) heads off to wander the universe. She hears of him through a kindly travelogue writer friend (Ben?) who stops by her planet every few years. Eventually, they all end up on Trantor, the planet of lights, where rebel kid tries to save self destructive 'droid friend from past (and piss off space princess ex-gf). Destructive droid self-destructs (lots of sparklers!). Rebel kid talks about studying with Zen-Sufi master (Yoda?), and then declares he is now ready to assume his life's work as a shuttle pilot, around the great planet of Nawk.

Almost 20 years ago, when I was in the Air Force, working on the flight line, I came down with a bit of a stomach flu. One day of hell on earth (why is my body trying to turn it self inside out, from both ends?), another day of rest and then I went back to work. Being sick was over the weekend so no one at work knew anything about it and I was out on a hot flight line in July, wearing dark green long sleeve shirt and pants. I don't remember feeling any warning signs; just that I woke up in the hospital with an IV in each arm and shivering uncontrollably.

If you've been recently ill, you have a greater chance of having a heat/temperature related incident.

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