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§$†^~~....            access consumer dna           ....~~^†$§
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@¶§$†^~~.. did   you   know?   those   people   are ..~~^†$§¶@
#@¶§$†^~~.  abstract. and with enough abstraction,  .~~^†$§¶@#
@¶§$†^~~..  everything becomes a homogenous mass.   ..~~^†$§¶@
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§$†^~~....   health checkup, border control, palm   ....~~^†$§
$†^~~.....    scan, coming-of-age ritual. gather    .....~~^†$
†^~~......           data, gather tissue.           ......~~^†
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~~........ 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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