（外文电子版资料）Robert Silverberg - The Man Who Never Forgot.pdf

file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Robert%20Silverberg%20-%20The%20Man%20Who%20Never%20Forgot.txt ====================== The Man Who Never Forgot by Robert Silverberg ====================== Copyright (c)1958, 1996 by Agberg, Ltd. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb. 1958 Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the purchaser. If you did not purchase this ebook directly from F then you are in violation of copyright law and are subject to severe fines. Please visit to purchase a legal copy. F offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwise ebooks. He saw the girl waiting in line outside a big Los Angeles movie house, on a mildly foggy Tuesday morning. She was slim and pale, barely five-three, with stringy flaxen hair, and she was alone. He remembered her, of course. He knew it would be a mistake, but he crossed the street anyway and walked up along the theatre line to where she stood. Hello, he said. She turned, stared at him blankly, flicked the tip of her tongue out for an instant over her lips. I dont believe I -- Tom Niles, he said. Pasadena, New Years Day, 1955. You sat next to me. Ohio State 20, Southern Cal 7. You dont remember? A football game? But I hardly ever -- I mean -- Im sorry, mister. I -- Someone else in the line moved forward towards him with a tight hard scowl on his face. Niles knew when he was beaten. He smiled apologetically and said, Im sorry, miss. I guess I made a mistake. I took you for someone I knew -- a Miss Bette Torrance. Excuse me. And he strode rapidly away. He had not gone more than ten feet when he heard the little surprised gasp and the But I _am_ Bette Torrance! -- but he kept going. _I should know better after twenty-eight years, he thought bitterly. But I forget the mos