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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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