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"Don't ever expect to bring your previous family into this environment without serious repercussion!" Olaf had warned me once.
"But there but one Soul and one humanity," I countered him.
It turned out that Olaf had been serious. I could now see then why. He told me that what I needed to consider had been said a long time ago. I also remembered that Olaf had never been a great authority on the dimensions of love, except to insist that love could only unfold on a universal platform as a universal principle, and that this principle was as distant to the people on Earth as was Gamma .8 or any other solar system. He said that everything build on a lesser foundation would be illogical, a self-delusion, and would be destructive. I agreed with him at first in a dry, hypothetical way, but oh how little did he know about human dreams, enduring obligations, investments of a lifetime, shared treasures born in trials, hopes, and affections. One couldn't just throw all this on the ash heap of scientific and technological progress as one might discard an outdated car. It didn't take long therefore, to bring Jill, Cira, and Natalia into this new exploratory process.
"How does one solve such a problem?" I asked. "Where does on start? Could this enrich our family? How would you like it if our family increased by three more people?"
I asked Jill, Cira and Natalia all of these questions. I explained that I wanted to try bringing Wendy and the children to our planet, to Bohr's planet, and into to our house. "It seems to be the logical thing to do, but..."
"That's wonderful!" answered Cira, interrupting me, and began to smile as if the greatest miracle in the entire world was before us.
Jill asked Cira why she felt that way.
"If you knew what it means to me to have my parents with me on this planet, you wouldn't have asked?" she replied to Jill, still smiling. "Could I be less happy, then," she said, "when the same might come true for Haniat?" as she affectionately called me still. "I only wonder why our courageous scientific pioneer had waited that long. I also wonder why he hasn't yet invited Martin and Werner to live with us as a part of our family. Don't we all share a deep love for each other that unites us? We share our dreams, hopes, struggles, challenges and trials. We are all married to each other by this love, and this more deeply than any of us ever were married in our Old World. Why shouldn't this advancing sense of unfolding reality that we cannot escape anyway, be acknowledged by us, or even be denied by bringing sex into the equation which isn't an isolating factor at all in the real universe. Should we not try to live in the real universe?"
"That's how I feel, too," added Natalia and hugged Cira and me.
Jill said nothing. She just took my hand and squeezed it gently and nodded. She embraced me, followed by kisses. I could see tears in her eyes, happy tears. And she embraced Cira and Natalia as well.
"Do you know hat this means," said Natalia.
"What could it mean?" I asked. "What could it possibly mean? What is unfolding here wouldn't change anything between us."
Natalia began to grin. "You are wrong. It means something," she said. "It means that we have to make the house bigger before it is even finished, mentally and physically. It means that the architect may quit on us out of sheer frustration."
"What has this got to do with anything?" I asked. "Why shouldn't a house be designed to grow?"
"Why should our sense of home not always be growing as the center of something immensely profound?" said Jill
"Why should everything be finite and terminal?" said Cira.
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