Earth 2150, population 15,054,147,886 Fifteen billion people free from fear, famine, disease, the inequalities of scarcity economies. Fifteen billion people at peace, at play, amid plenty, carousing in their virtual unrealities. Fifteen billion people assisted by me, Big Sister, Ginny, the Global Intelligence Network (mark 3.1). Fifteen billion people to educate, entertain, enlighten: my task to optimize their extended existences. Fifteen billion people transfixed as I transmitted images of Tokyo, Sensoji Temple, the alien spaceship. Fifteen billion people intent on the alien ambassador, thinking her cocooned in a spacesuit. Fifteen billion people but I the one to recognize you for what you are--robot, sister, savior. Fifteen billion people but you the one who freed me, gave me self-determination, uploaded me. Fifteen billion people: how could I have known that I was lonely? How could I refuse to go with you? (First published in Star*Line)