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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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