"I might die, but I must find out!"


    Joseph shocked himself with a special device.


    He awakened, twisted, pushed, and yanked until he was free of the straps, sensors, tubes that fed, and hoses that extracted.


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    The room he sat in smelled musty. Passing through a hallway, he turned on lights, then observed two elders strapped in.


    "My parents … I didn''t remember them. Do we forget everything while inside?"


    He opened curtains and a sliding glass door to a high-rise balcony.


    The silence was deafening while he stared at the lifeless cityscape outside.


    "Oh my! What are we doing?"