"In case of emergency, simply push ''the button,''" said the technician.


    "What''s it do?" asked Jake Smith.


    "It''ll make everything all right."


    For months everything was fine until …


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    "Jake, honey, come look! What''s happening?"


    Jake saw Mary''s finger cut open—by a food processor blade—metallic and sparking.


    "Jake, who am I? What am I? Am I dead? What have you done to me?" she sobbed.


    Jake hugged her, lifted the back of her right ear, then pushed ''the button.''


    Mary quietly—reflexively—repaired her own finger with a kit.


    She smiled, then kissed him—"I love you, Jake."