With AI being touted as the way to go, many found useful applications for it. Turn your lights on/off without getting up, for keeping track of groceries in the refrigerator and ordering replacement food, even keeping the house secure. Marvin thought it would help him with his grief after his wife passed away. Hearing her voice, reminding him of errands needed to be done, even having conversations with her again. Or so he thought...

As I started writing this story it was intended to be a social comment on the treatment of soldiers with invisible wounds. When I introduced Angelina (her character was based on a young Turkish barmaid I had met during my own tour of duty in Ulm, Germany) the tide turned and it quickly became a love story. Normally I do not write romance, and, while not wishing to abandon my brothers in uniform, I entwined both plots creating a more vivid picture.