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G4591 Version 7.5: Griffin the Impossible {I;m in the MOde for Love Challenge}

Danae grumbled pushing the buttons in the seemingly random sequence the tech service lady on the phone called out to her. seven, one, zero,four. “All done,” she exclaimed into the receiver.

The voice on the opposite end cooed, “Now, try again.”

Danae moved around to face her new husband. He’d only been unboxed for twelve hours before he started to malfunction. She would ask him to please lift his feet for her to vacuum and he would place them, both, firmly on the floor.

She leaned up and spoke directly into his audio recepticle, or ear hole, as she called it. “Say, ...my… name is Griffin,” she commanded. The operator corrected, “Say it as you would to any other human.”

Danae rolled her eyes, “Say my name is Griffin.” G4591 turned his blue ringed optical lenses on her and smiled, “Hello Griffin.”

She frowned deeply and almost yelled into the receiver, “See! I can’t take him anywhere like this!”

“Mm,hmm. Seems you have version 7.5. This is what happens in a marriage of multiple years.”

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