1. Brooo wooo wooo wooo wooo!
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2. Oh look, it opens up!
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3. Hello Emily.
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4. Hiiiii.
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5. One day, when you are
old enough, you will be
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6. impregnated with a perfect
clone of yourself.
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7. You will later upload all of your
memories into this healthy new body.
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8. One day, long after that, you will
repeat this process all over again.
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9. Through this cloning process, Emily,
you will hope to live forever.
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10. I had lunch todayl
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11. I am a third generation Emily,
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12. contacting you from 227
years into your future
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13. and I would like you to know
that everything is going well
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14. in the transfer and
cloning process,
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15. with very few signs of
muntal detariar-ation.
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16. Is that Grandma?
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17. No Emily, I am not your grandmother.
In a sense, you are mine. I am Emily.
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18. Emily.
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19. For those who cannot afford
the cloning process,
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20. many of our elderly undergo a full
digital transfer of consciousness,
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21. where they can experience a safe,
extended lifespan of hundreds of years.
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22. Our grandfather's digital consciousness
currently resides in this cube,
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23. where I upload the latest films and
books for him to enjoy every week.
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24. Grandpa!
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25. We are also able to download
correspondence from him.
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26. Over 1,000 letters were received
during his first hour in storage,
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27. as this was approximately four
year's time inside the cube.
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28. I will read one of his
letters to you now.
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29. “Oh. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God.
Oh my God.
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30. Holy mother of God.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh God.”
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31. For end-of-life procedures for our less
affluent citizens in the lower classes,
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32. the face of a deceased loved one
can be peeled off, preserved,
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33. and stretched over the head of
a simple animatronic robot,
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34. so they can still be a
part of someone's life.
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35. Our view-screens allow us to
witness any event in history by
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36. reordering the light impressions
recorded on the subatomic particles
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37. that are in constant chaos all around us.
It is how I am watching you now, Emily.
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38. It is how we watch everything in your time.
Our more recent history is
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39. often just comprised of images of
other people watching view-screens.
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40. Do... do you like my cars?
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41. How I'm contacting you today though, Emily,
is through experimental time travel.
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42. Time travel for physical beings is a much more
difficult process than sending a message.
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43. If the position of the orbiting Earth at your
destination date is not accurately calculated,
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44. a person could be sent
off the planet.
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45. Many of our brave test clones are also still
regularly crushed beneath the ground,
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46. or accidentally deposited hundreds
of thousands of years into the past.
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47. Time travel is very often unpredictable,
and still extremely dangerous.
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48. Emily, I shall now use time travel to
bring you to my current location in time.
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49. Wha—
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50. Hey!
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51. Butterflies!
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52. Oh! I saw some pink ones!
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53. The people of your time were engaged
with something called the Internet.
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54. Welcome, Emily, to the Outernet.
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55. We are now connected
through a neural network.
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56. Green...
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57. Blue...
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58. Some lines are coming out.
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59. Yes, Emily Prime, to the people of your time,
our technology must seem like magic.
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60. - Ooooh!
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61. And brown... and brown... green and blue
and green... that's all the colors I got.
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62. For all of its magic, the
Outernet can be a sad place.
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63. Many lonely people from the lower classes
have disappeared into its safe infinity
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64. to be never heard from again.
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65. Look! I drawed... a... triangle!
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66. I drew a snake boy.
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67. But some... some day... you have
to not make a snake boy.
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68. 'Cause... uh... when... I... yesterday I didn't see
any snake boys... but you made one.
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69. Yes.
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70. Can I do your other... but...
golden round things?
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71. I have no idea what you're talking about.
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72. Wiggle wiggle wiggle!
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73. Okay.
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74. I have many memories that I would
like to share with you now, Emily.
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75. We can go visit them together,
like seeing pictures in a book.
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76. Please follow me
into the window.
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77. Ciiiiiircle!
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78. When I was your age,
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79. there was a controversial new
exhibit in the modern art museum.
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80. An artist placed a clone on
display in a stasis tube.
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81. A child without a brain that the public
could watch grow old in real time.
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82. Can you smell the floor polish?
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83. The museum's antiseptic but musty odor
of countless generations in passing.
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84. What... what was his name?
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85. Museum visitors nicknamed the body “David,”
and it became a popular attraction.
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86. Regular visitors ate
lunch in his wing.
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87. Classrooms of children came
to learn about anatomy.
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88. People who'd speak quietly
to him in the night.
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89. People who'd pay him a visit whenever
they found themselves back in the city
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90. and remembered he was there.
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91. It has a new one, it says its old.
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92. Yes. David grows older and older until
he dies at the age of seventy two.
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93. He is quietly removed from
display without publicity,
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94. as per the artist's
original instructions.
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95. He is mourned and deeply
missed throughout the city.
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96. I can still remember its eyes...
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97. its blinking eyes.
- Eyeees.
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98. There's something
In my museum...?
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99. And there's... they don't move...
And I hear somebody talking... a lot.
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100. Yes. That is the memory
I just shared with you.
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101. Because I have brought you inside of it, you
are now mistaking the memory for your own.
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102. Okay.
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103. We mustn't linger. It is easy
to get lost in memories.
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104. My first job was supervising robots on
the moon. Are you familiar with robots?
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105. Yes, I always like wobots. I have
a... a... wed wobot and a pink wobot.
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106. I enjoyed working with them.
I enjoyed the solitude.
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107. The robots are
solar powered and
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108. must always be kept on the light
side of the moon's surface.
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109. To motivate them to constantly
move within the drifting sunlight,
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110. I programmed them to fear death and
what lies on the dark side of the moon.
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111. It's getting dark outside!
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112. It was here, on the moon, that
I fell in love with a rock.
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113. I did not understand my mental and
emotional shortcomings at the time
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114. and only knew that I found this
rock to be immensely attractive.
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115. It was sparkly.
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116. The economy on the lunar surface
went through a recession
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117. and I was sent home
after six cycles.
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118. My rock and I were separated.
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119. But the robots were too
expensive to remove.
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120. To this day, they are still in perpetual
movement across the sunlight.
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121. Oh look, it's a little moon!
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122. With no work to do, no more tasks to accomplish,
still living in constant fear of death,
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123. and occasionally sending
us depressed poetry.
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124. I will read one of their
poems to you now, Emily.
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125. "The light is life. Robot must move.
Move, robot, move. But why?
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126. Move, move, move. Robot.
Forever move."
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127. I was relocated to supervise the
construction robots on the boundary
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128. of the Keeowah, in deep space.
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129. - Keeo-wah!
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130. It was there that I fell
in love with a fuel pump.
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131. This part of my life continued to develop, and
it was much more gratifying than the rock.
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132. In one of the tropical moon caves,
I found an abandoned nest of eggs.
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133. It's purple!
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134. You open the lids like
that and then it comes off.
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135. What is that?
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136. A monster.
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137. That's his mouth?
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138. No, that's his mouth.
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139. Stop it you silly thing!
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140. I named it Simon.
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141. Simon!
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142. Yes. Again you think you remember
because you are experiencing a memory
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143. from my point of view.
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144. Yeah.
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145. Simon grew up and followed me around for
7 years, saying unintelligible things.
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146. We fell in love.
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147. For vacations, we sailed
in balloons on Mars.
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148. - He's flying!
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149. But I missed my home.
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150. I missed something deeper.
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151. Did you miss me?
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152. Yes.
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153. At birth, I had inherited from you the
memory of myself meeting you right now.
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154. What?
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155. I made a decision to be reassigned to
Earth and spend more time with people.
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156. These became the happiest
years of my life.
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157. But Simon was inconsolable.
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158. For many years, memories could
only be harvested from the dead.
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159. The images were fished out blindly from random
clusters of neurons and looked like this...
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160. I opened an art gallery of anonymous memories,
and it was here that I met my husband.
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161. He was a clone as well, from the same
source as David, the boy in the tube
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162. I felt I had
known all my life.
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163. Only now, his beautiful sparkly eyes
were lit with the mind of his Prime:
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164. a David from over 400 years ago.
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165. As an older clone, he showed
many signs of deterioration.
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166. But I loved him as
though we were originals.
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167. He died suddenly and David's
line was permanently ended.
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168. That is the thing about
the present, Emily Prime.
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169. You only appreciate it
when it is the past.
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170. I harvested his memories and
they still bring me happiness.
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171. This is one my favorite of his
memories and I cannot explain why.
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172. He is descending a staircase and sees
a large plant blowing in the wind.
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173. Flopping its fronds together
in a sort of plant applause.
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174. I have viewed this
memory over 6,000 times.
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175. You missed him.
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176. I do not have the mental or emotional
capacity to deal with his loss.
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177. But sometimes, I sit in a chair late
at night and quietly feel very bad.
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178. When the night is at its most
quiet, I can hear death.
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179. I am very proud of my sadness
because it means I am more alive.
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180. I no longer fall in
love with rocks.
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181. In sixty days from now, a
meteor will strike the Earth
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182. and most everyone here
will die horribly.
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183. Our wealthiest individuals are now uploading
their digital consciousnesses into cubes
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184. that they are launching
into deep space.
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185. Our lower classes are desperately
trying to escape the meteor
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186. through discount time travel, causing
untold millions to die in orbit.
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187. Their dead bodies burn as they return to
Earth and now light up our night sky.
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188. What's this up in the sky?
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189. Dead bodies!
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190. Look another one!
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191. Yes. It is very pretty.
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192. They're okay?
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193. No, they're all dead.
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194. I'll count them!
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195. - One, Two, Three...
- We are all doomed, Emily Prime.
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196. Even those on the
interplanetary ports.
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197. They are rumored to be burying the clones
of world leaders beneath the Earth.
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198. Emily Prime, there is another
reason I have contacted you today.
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199. You retain an early memory that I have
forgotten that was very important to me.
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200. I wish to retrieve it
from you before I die.
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201. I shall extract this
memory from you now.
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202. This is... this is me...
and mommy.
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203. This is me and mommy walking.
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204. This is me and mommy walking.
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205. A rainbow!
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206. Thank you, Emily. This will bring
me great comfort in the days ahead.
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207. You missed it. I saw it.
You missed it.
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208. This is your future, Emily Prime. It is
sometimes a sad life and it is a long life.
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209. You will feel a deep longing for
something you cannot quite remember.
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210. It will be a beautiful visit.
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211. And then we shall share the same
fate as the rest of the human race:
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212. dying horribly.
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213. The advice is give you now is the
advice I remember receiving from myself
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214. at your age in this moment, so I cannot be
certain where it actually originated from:
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215. Do not lose time on daily trivialities.
Do not dwell on petty detail.
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216. For all of these things melt away and drift
apart within the obscure traffic of time.
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217. Live well and live broadly.
You are alive and living now.
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218. Now is the envy of
all of the dead.
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219. Okay!
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220. Thank you, Emily Prime.
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221. It has been an honor to meet you and a joy to
emerge from your 3rd generation birth canal.
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222. I shall now return you to your home and
current time. I will not contact you again.
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223. Goodbye.
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224. Aah!
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225. What a happy day it iiiis!
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226. Daffodil, daffodil, daffodil...
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227. Oh, look at these pretty colors!
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228. I can see the sun is still there!
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229. Look, the rain is still there
and the rainbow's still there...
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230. but the rain is still there,
and the rainbow doesn't go away.
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