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###@$$::..            access consumer dna           ..::$$@###
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#@$$::.... did   you   know?   those   people   are ....::$$@#
@$$::.....  abstract. and with enough abstraction,  .....::$$@
$$::......   everything becomes a homogenous mass.  ......::$$
$::.......                                          .......::$
::........   health checkup, border control, palm   ........::
:.........    scan, coming-of-age ritual. gather    .........:
..........           data, gather tissue.           ..........
:.........                                          .........:
::........ we're making  a  delicious dragon. we're ........::
$::.......    force-feeding it the entire human     .......::$
$$::...... genome. (it's  not  cannibalism  if done ......::$$
@$$::.....                by proxy~)                .....::$$@
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##@$$::... feel  the girth of  the  hugging  snake! ...::$$@##
###@$$::.. and i am the charmer. a  single enetity, ..::$$@###
####@$$::.          combined oracle/hunter.         .::$$@####
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