DEEP SPACE: "Melora" - REV. 08/27/93 - ACT THREE          32.

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					DAX
			Since when has that ever stopped 
			anybody?... I knew a hydrogen-breathing 
			Lothra who fell hopelessly in love 
			with an Oxygene...

					MELORA
				(reacts)
			You're kidding... how could they 
			even stay in the same room?

					DAX
			Forty minutes a day without their 
			breathing apparatus... that's all.  
			Lovely couple... fifty-seven years 
			they were together.

					MELORA
			What about career conflicts?  Two 
			friends of mine from the Academy got 
			engaged even though they knew they 
			were assigned to different 
			starships...

					DAX
			Subspace relationship?

					MELORA
			Uh huh.

					DAX
			That's a tough one.

					MELORA
			They may not be together for a year 
			or more... and even then only for a 
			few weeks...

					DAX
			Love across light years is just so...

					MELORA
			... it lacks intimacy...

					DAX
			... you could say that.