[ WP ] `` Do n't you know Dave ? Everyone knows Dave ! '' Of course everyone knows him . Because he 's interdimensional being .

Everyone knows Dave. He's all knowing and all seeing, though certainly not omnipotent. If you ask him, you can ask him anything at his website `` askdave.com'', he will explain to you that he is n't actually real, at least not in any sense that we would understand it. 
 
 Most people do n't take him seriously. They do n't really believe that he's some interdimensional being, instead attributing the Dave persona to an artificial intelligence or even a team of people masquerading as an alien being. But whatever he is, everyone knows him. But, not the way I know him. 
 
 The first time I met him, if you can call it that, was two years ago. He came to me one evening, approaching me in his non-corporeal way as I sat watching the waves lapping against the stoney shoreline at my cottage. 
 
 `` Hello, Helen.'' His deep voice inserted itself into my brain, bypassing the usual route of sound waves and auditory channels. 
 
 Somehow I was n't afraid. Somehow I even knew it was him. Perhaps he had inserted the knowledge in the same way he had inserted his voice. `` Hello, Dave.'' I responded. 
 
 A simple introduction. Uneventful. But I felt his presence beside and around me as I remained sitting on my old wooden bench. 
 
 `` What brings you here?'' I ask. 
 
 `` I just wanted to be with you. I was lonely.'' 
 
 How could someone, something like Dave be lonely? He had millions of followers, hundreds of thousands of queries an hour on his website. Some people even worshipped him, treating him as a god. Why would he come to me of all people? 
 
 `` Lonely?'' I repeated, feeling stupid. 
 
 I then felt a terrible wave of the worst loneliness I'd every experienced. My heart softened. 
 
 `` You can stay with me for a while, if you'd like.'' 
 
 And so he did. I had never imagined that it could be possible to fall in love with a person you could never see, never touch. But I loved him, and he loved me. 
 
 In time our intimacy grew, and with it so did a new life within my womb. Each night as Dave wrapped his essence around and through me, I would feel the new life stir in recognition of her father. 
 
 On the night of the thousand babes, our daughter was born. She was one of a thousand. Each a new life, fathered by Dave. 
 
 At first I was furious. How could he be so cruel as to cheat on me with 999 other women? Every time he drew close to me or our daughter I would push him away. 
 
 `` Leave me alone!'' I would scream. 
 
 `` I can not,'' he would answer. 
 
 Day after day he would approach me, enveloping me in his love and comfort. I wanted to forgive, but the pain was too great. 
 
 `` You are one in a billion,'' he would tell me. Technically I suppose he was right. I just wished that he had n't chosen 999 more one in a billion girls at the same time. 
 
 `` You are mother to a new beginning. The embodiment of my being. The rebirth of my species.'' 
 
 Eventually I understood. He was the last. And my daughter, one of the first. 
 
 While there were several more nights of a thousand births since my daughter's arrival, and I expect that there will be several more, I am no longer angry. I wish he had told me the truth from the beginning, but perhaps he understood that humanity was not yet ready to accept his method of repopulating his species. 
 
 One day, my daughter and all her half siblings will move away into another dimension that has been reserved just for them. I dread that day. But Dave has promised me that I will never lose her, and I will never lose him. And I believe him, because I can feel them both in my heart and my head and know that they will never let me go.
