"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."