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   "I guess I'm interested. How come nobody's ever heard of you?"

   Both ladies laugh. "We don't advertise much," they say.

   Well, you figure that you know both ladies from Voyagers and your parents know them as well, so it should be all right. "Where should I go?" you ask them.

   "It's not really up to us," says Sue.

   "No," agrees Teresa.

   "What do you mean?" you ask.

   "Well, it's like this," says Sue. "You fill out a questionnaire and head back into that waiting room. When we have enough people for a trip, you all go at once."

   "Like a charter trip?" you ask.

   "You could call it that," says Teresa.

   "So who decides where we're going?"

   "We sort of find out just beforehand," Sue says.

   "How does it all work?" you ask.

   "Ask her," Sue says. "It's something called the 'Stofer Interface' She's the one that discovered it."

   "Not really me," Teresa says. "It's like this... Back in the late 1980s, we went to Plimoth Plantation. My eldest daughter dropped a bottle and it rolled down the hill and under a shrub..."

   "Her daughter ran after it and disappeared... literally."

   "But only for a short time," Teresa added. "When she reappeared, she had a letter from the governor of Plimoth Plantation.

   "What did she say about where she'd been?" you ask.

   "Not much. She wasn't old enough to talk yet. All she said that made any sense at all was 'Stofer Interface', but we didn't know what it meant," Teresa said.

   "So how did you find out?" It was an interesting story, if hard to believe.

   "I went back later and crawled into the same place as where my daughter disappeared." Teresa said. She had a smug look on her face.

   "What did you discover?" you ask.

   "Amazing things," she said.