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Q-Code presents Hidden

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Signal, the excavator and

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kids' stuff. I

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spend most of my day covered in trash. I'm

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not a garbage man, I don't pick up

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bins and hang off the back of a smelly truck.

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But I work with rubbish all the same.

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My equipment is sophisticated and

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expensive, probably one of the

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greatest human inventions up to this point. And

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I use it to sift through trash. People

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hire me to find things in the mess. They come to

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my office and sit in my comfortable

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chair, as comfortable as I could afford, which

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puts it somewhere better than a brick

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but less than a massager. And

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I plug in my wires and step into their brain

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and pick through the dump. Forty

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years ago this job would have been a piece of

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cake. But it's not forty years

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ago, and nobody had a need for this back then. Now

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everybody has a screen, and

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a screen within that screen, and

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a screen in their head. And

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a screen in their car. And a

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screen on their desk. And those

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screens blast them with ads and pop-ups and

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pop-up ads until their brains can't

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tell the difference between their kid's birthday

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and Black Friday.

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If you can afford it, you can compartmentalize

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and stuff all that useless crap into a backup

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brain, a disc image of your soul.

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But if you're seeing me, it means you can't afford a backup. And

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it's my job to go in there

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and find what you're looking for under all

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those commercials. I was

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built for this job. When I was a

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kid I kept journals and made albums. And

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when all my friends were tagging their digital archives, I

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spent my time cutting index cards to just a few. the

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right size to fit the shoebox where I kept snapshots.

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My friends thought I was weird. One

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kid shoved me off the seawall near my

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house and broke my arm.

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I wish I kept my cast that had all those signatures

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on it. Probably the last time

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any of those people used a pen.

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Most of my work is civil cases. Family

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is looking to scrape a few extra dollars off

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the carcass of their dying relatives. Sometimes

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I'll do personals. That's almost always

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a son or daughter looking to recover a bank

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password from their vegetable parents. I

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turned down the infidelity cases or embezzlement.

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There

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might be a piece of paper that says it's

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okay if I go rooting around in the

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alleged embezzler's brain, but

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I went in once and saw that they didn't sign that

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contract peacefully.

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It's like these people forget that I can see everything

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that happened once I'm in there.

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I can usually do about four or five

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cases a day. Every

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excavator has their own approach. Some get

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in there and wrestle with the brain till it spits

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out what they want like broken teeth.

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I take a more laid back approach.

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I see what the brain gives me and coax it

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into what I want. These

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are lost memories, so very

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rarely are they in the first place you look. I

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like to land and get settled. I see

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where I'm at and go from there, but it's

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not as simple as poking around the file drawer.

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I've been doing this long enough that it's muscle memory,

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but for you, I'm going to pretend I'm

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explaining it for the first time. We

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go in because someone has lost something, and

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it's our job to find it. The brain

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is a big, electrical web, connected

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by keywords and context.

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One keyword, I call them tags, leads

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to another tag, leads to another

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tag, and eventually I find whatever it is

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they hired me to find,

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like walking into a puzzle store, finding a piece,

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and putting it back in the right box.

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You want the tags to provide a specific context,

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but not so specific you zoom past what you're

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looking for.

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And not so broad you end up walking through

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half their life on the way to the bank password or

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locker combo or whatever miniscule

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thing is keeping their relatives from money.

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I don't use the tag birthday anymore.

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There's always too much linked to birthdays. The

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last job I started from birthday took 8

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hours to finish. And if I'm taking 8

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hours in there, I'm not getting hired again.

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I mentioned context, but I want to give

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context some context. If

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the tags open up rooms for me and the brain,

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context is the wallpaper and the furniture

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in that room. And when you're in an

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Alzheimer's patient, that context

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can be all over the place. And

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if the brain doesn't want you there, it

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might switch context on you all of a sudden.

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You have to watch where you step. I

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use the tags and context together to find

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the client's request. Sometimes

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you can look at a room and see what's missing. Or

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sometimes something's out of context

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and you know it belongs somewhere else. It

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all depends on how much information the client

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gives me. This is how

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I explain my job to every new client. I

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give this speech four or five times every

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day. Today is

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different. I give the speech to

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a new client, but it's someone I've known

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for a while. My

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brother sits across from me in

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the same chair that so many twitchy inheritors

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have sat before him. They

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always have a reason. It's what you

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would want. My father and I were always

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close even if he didn't say it. But

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they say that stuff for them. I

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know it's about the money. Money

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hidden behind passwords, hidden behind

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trash and ads and jingles,

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hidden behind the dying brain of a

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parent.

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My brother isn't here

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for cash. My

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brother and I haven't spoken in a while. He's

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bigger than I remember, but

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smaller at the same time, he

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launches a new phone. into the pretext. I

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can tell it's going to be a long one, so I ask

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him to just tell me what he needs.

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It's mom. Great. I

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moved across the country to get away from my family

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and now they're back, in my

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office. Do you think

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people can tell you have a dysfunctional family?

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Do you walk different if your parents were drunks?

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Do you smell a certain way if you don't talk to your siblings

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anymore? Can people see it on you? Do

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they change how they treat you? Mom

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is laid up in the hospital and she's not

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responding anymore. Her new

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husband thinks she would want to stay like this indefinitely.

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He says her life is a gift from God.

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Pfft. Mom's religious now? I

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think to ask him, but I don't want this interaction

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to last any longer than it needs to. I

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know mom wouldn't want to be this way for more

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than five minutes, but mom never

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left an advance directive anywhere either of us

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could find it.

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I think for a moment. There

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are excavators a lot closer to where you live.

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Why'd you come out here? My

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brother looks at me like I have clown makeup on.

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You're her son. You could

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find it faster. I'm not made

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of money and I can't afford to have someone in there

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for a few hours. You'll find it

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in five minutes. I

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am good at my job. I

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reach to my drawer and pull out a service agreement.

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My brother grumbles, but signs it. I

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head for home. At

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Kroger, everyone wins when it

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comes to saving big. Because

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when you order online through the Kroger app,

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you get the same great prices, deals,

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and rewards on pickup or delivery

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that you do in store with no hidden

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fees or markups. Best of all, you'll

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know when items in your cart have a coupon, so

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you never miss a deal. So whether you're a

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delivery lover, picker upper, or

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you shop in store, no matter how you

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shop, you'll always save big at

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Kroger. Kroger, fresh. for everyone.

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I'm

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in the hospital room. The next second, I'm

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in a legal office. Figured

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I'd start there. But

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my mom is much younger here. And

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she's crying. Oh.

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This is not about the advance directive. This

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is about her and my dad. I

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try a different type. Now

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I'm in a bar. Mom's there. She's

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falling off her stool. Some

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guy helps her back up. He kinda looks

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like the white hair I met in the hospital, but I can't be

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sure. There's not gonna

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be anything here. I move on. Now

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I'm on our old porch.

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I don't remember what tag I used to get here.

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Did I plug this one in? Mom's

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there. She motions

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for someone to sit in the chair next to her. I

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look around. I'm the only

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one here. This

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is a memory, so if she's waving invisible

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people over to her chair, maybe

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this is when it all started to break down for her? This

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isn't when I started to lose my mind. I'm

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asking you to come sit next to me. That

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shouldn't happen. I'm

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just... I'm just going back through

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the tapes of people's minds. The

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tapes shouldn't be able to talk back. Well,

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I am. And you're here. So

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why don't you have a seat? I

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think I'm jetlagged from the flight over. It's

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not jetlagged either. I

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decide to humor whatever is happening

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here. How can you know what

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I'm thinking? You're in my brain.

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You don't think I can look back into yours? This

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is a two-way street, buddy. She

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always used to call me buddy. I'm

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supposed to... I'm supposed

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to get your advanced directive and let... I know

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what you're here to do. Is it

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alright if I spend a few moments with my son before

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I go? My brother is

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paying me by the hour, so my time

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in here is covered. What

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a loving way to think about spending time with

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your mother. I sit quietly.

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She can read my thoughts, so she already knows how I feel

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about this. You're

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the one invading my head, and you're upset

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at me? This has got to be some

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kind of neurochemical malfunction. When

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was the last time I serviced my gear?

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I can't remember. Great. Now

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I'm gonna have to hire somebody to figure out the last

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time I had a tech look at my tools. Hope

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I'm not out of compliance. I've

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had a lot of time to think about things in here.

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And what did you realize? I don't

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want to drag this out much longer. My

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brother can't afford the time it would take to have

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a full cathartic conversation. I

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didn't always do right by you.

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Took you a little bit longer, but I am glad

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you figured it out. If

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it makes any difference, I go back to the times

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I wish I had done different, and

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I make it count. I treat

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you better. That's

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nice. But those are just memories.

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They're all I've got now. But

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you're here, and I wanted to tell you. I

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know you're anxious to get back to the real world.

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So I'll just tell you. I left

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you a copy of the advance directive in my safety

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deposit I opened with Henry.

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That's what I needed. I stand.

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I don't know why. I don't have to stand

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or sit or walk or run or anything

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to leave this place. I can just leave.

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Maybe I'm just trying to be polite to whatever this

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echo is of my mom. And

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I appreciate that, sweetheart. I

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look at her for a moment. I'm

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back in the hospital room.

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I tell my brother and Henry where they

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can find the advance directive.

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They take off to find it. It's

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just me and mom. She

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looked much younger in her head. I

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head home. On the

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plane, I wonder if this job will be

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one of those times that I'll be trying to fix

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when I'm by myself in my head.

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For now,

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I'll assume I did the right thing.

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Hidden Signal Kid Stuff I

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am a scientist and an

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artisan. I don't think I can

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call myself an artist, yet. But

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my work is specialized and

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requires a deft hand.

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My background is unlike any

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of my colleagues, which they always

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use to argue against my ideas.

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Not because of a lack of experience. I have

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plenty. But because they say

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I can't use myself as reference.

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Why would he use himself as reference?

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I can almost hear your dull brain asking.

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I design people. Not

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their clothes or their homes or

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their hair.

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But people.

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It's a mix of robotics and genome

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manipulation. And if I thought you were

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smart enough to understand, I'd spend the rest

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of my time explaining it instead of telling

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you this story. But you're not, so

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I'm not. Mostly kids.

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Lots of folks come to me to request that I build them

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the child of their dreams. The

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kids grow up eventually and move on. We

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have a database that tracks them in case they go

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rogue. But for all parties involved,

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it's another shot at childhood.

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At 1.75 times the aging rate of course. Don't

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ask why, and have me explain

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to you how I can't explain it to you.

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Raising a family.

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Many of the parents I work with don't talk to their real

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kids anymore. Maybe they just feel like

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taking another crack at it to prove they weren't

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that bad the first time around. I

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entered this field because I wanted to make something

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beautiful. I don't care about

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terraforming Mars, and I have no

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interest in finishing the solar Dyson

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sphere. Jobs for scientists

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with my level of intellect are few

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and far between. I

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started small. Two or three

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assemblies a year, but as my

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reputation grew so did my waiting list.

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So I expanded my production

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capabilities and learned new techniques

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until I could construct seven to ten

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assemblies a quarter.

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One thing you'll notice amongst the super smart is that

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we're always learning. The word is autodidactic,

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no, I'm not going to define it for you. More

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clients means more notes. And

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every day I sit there and listen

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to people tell me how to assemble

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the personality of their kid. When

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they can't even tell me what color a gallbladder

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is. It's a brownish greenish yellow.

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It's their money. But why

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hire me if you're just going to dumb

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down the whole process with your inane ideas

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and how your kid should be smart and

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also do the dishes every night.

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Those two are mutually exclusive.

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You get one or the other. And

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some clients are even worse. I

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nearly dropped the ear I was holding when

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my parents walked into my office. You

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don't see me without a referral and

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you certainly don't visit unless you're

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ready to buy.

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I don't even call them on birthdays and

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Christmas so their presence was unusual

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at best and suspect at

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most. I smiled

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and made pleasantries and guided them to my consultation.

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My consultation desk has a bunch of see-through

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anatomical sculptures and stuff that gives

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me credibility. I don't

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do any work there.

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My actual desk is covered in empty Pringle

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scans, zero milligrams of cholesterol,

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and my notes. That's where

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I do my work. How

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can I help you? I asked mom and dad.

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My mom spoke first. We're

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sorry to drop in unannounced, but

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everyone we spoke to told us you were the best.

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I smiled, thinking of

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what it must be like to have a son that's

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an expert in their field. Whoever

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it was should get a kickback, I

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joked poorly. Dad

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leaned over the desk. Aunt,

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Anthony, I corrected him. Anthony,

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Dr. Mills, we want

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you to build something for us. My

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dog, cat, iguana,

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I'm not the best fish maker, but I can give it

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to college try. You have

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such a big brain and you can't see what's right

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in front of you. I did

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not want to hear the request. My

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dad kept speaking. We'd

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like you to build us a son. A

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son? They already

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had a son. I was sitting right in

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front of them. This was just another mind

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game in their endless emotional chess

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match that I was unlucky enough to

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be born into. Interesting.

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And why would you want another son?

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Why do you care? My

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mom spit these words at me. I'm

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glad it wasn't my real workspace, lots of

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negative energy. I have to ask

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every potential client this. This is

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a life we're talking about. I

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folded my hands into a steeple to look like

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I was very interested in their answer. My

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dad spoke after a few seconds. The

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house is a little lonely lately and we'd like

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the energy a young person brings. Like

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when you bring a puppy to your old dying house. dog. My

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dad didn't think that was funny. Our

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money's good. Do you want the job or not?

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He tossed his wallet into the fake

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desk for emphasis. Same

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since I was a kid. A rubber band

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around a bunch of dollar bills. I

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unclasped my steeple and held my chin.

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I wasn't thinking about whether or not to take the

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job. I already decided

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I would. I was deciding how

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long to keep them in suspense. I

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made them wait long enough. I'll

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do the job. I buzzed my assistant

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to drop the services agreement and gave them my

18:36

email address only for their

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thoughts, hopes, dreams, and wishes.

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But I may as well have handed them the trash

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bin. I had no intention

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of reading that email. I

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had other designs.

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Once they left the office, I moved their job to the

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top of my queue and stepped into

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my lab. There was no

18:57

way to ignore this and focus on other jobs.

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I had to be honest with myself. Their

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list arrived a few minutes later and it was suspiciously

19:06

all the inverse qualities of myself. I

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wonder what led them to this notion. I

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deleted their email and got to work.

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My goal was to create myself again.

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And if they were so unhappy with me

19:20

the first time, how would they handle

19:22

round two? I poked my

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head into my assistant's office and asked them

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to describe me in a few qualities. His

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face turned like the vacuum

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seal failed on the small intestines in

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storage. Qualities

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of you? Yes,

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I need reference for a new project.

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I showed him my teeth to let him know that this was a safe

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space. If he were another species

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of primate, this would be very threatening

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behavior. But humans enjoy

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smiles.

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I smiled larger in hopes the space would

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seem even safer.

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He answered. Your...ambitious,

20:03

detail-oriented, exacting,

20:07

unforgiving, quick

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to anger. Thank you! I've had

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enough. I wasn't about to freak

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out on him and prove him right.

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I skulked back to my workspace. I

20:19

looked at the carbon fiber composite skeleton

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that I was going to slough all that meat

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and veins onto and wondered what type

20:26

of person I was. How can

20:28

sinew and blood encapsulate all

20:30

that I am? Then

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I remembered I could recreate this inquisitive

20:35

attitude in the construction by fiddling with the

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curiosity dial.

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I was midway through calibrating his

20:42

hard-headedness when I remembered

20:45

my sister. Not only

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were my parents insulting me, they

20:50

were adding another boy to the family. Had

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they talked to Annabelle? Had they even

20:54

considered a girl? They

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were old-fashioned drunks, so I'm not

20:59

surprised they were misogynistic as well. Since

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this assembly was going to be my sibling,

21:04

I decided to finagle some of the qualities

21:07

to avoid another Annabelle knockoff.

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I don't want to worry about forgetting two siblings'

21:13

birthdays a year. I

21:16

finished the psychological profiles and gave

21:18

him physical features to differentiate

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him from me in the daylight. But at

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night, when my parents tucked him

21:25

in, they'd see little Anthony

21:27

in the dim light. Let them

21:30

lay in that bed figuratively.

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These constructs need a lot of sleep at first,

21:36

so if they laid in bed with him, they'd

21:38

probably slow his recovery and

21:40

adjustment period. I

21:42

set the oven to bake and decided to come back in the morning.

21:45

I'm always exhausted after a build, and I

21:47

wanted to be wide awake for the reveal.

21:51

The next day, my assistant knocked, differentially,

21:54

of course, and stepped into the lab.

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He's not allowed in the lab, so I

21:59

knew it was on. Something serious? Those

22:02

clients that hired you for the

22:05

latest assembly? He quivered.

22:08

They're my parents, but go ahead. They

22:12

backed out. They're asking for

22:14

a refund. Always

22:16

a risk when you don't give the clients 24

22:18

hours. People

22:21

come in here with their hair on fire,

22:24

screaming about a one day turnaround

22:26

and how they need this and that.

22:29

But every assembler and constructor

22:31

knows, add 24 hours

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onto your bid. There's always a chance

22:35

they'll back out. And this saves you the hassle

22:38

of using all that fluid on a build you're

22:40

just going to throw out.

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My parents got me again. I

22:44

saw how they raised me. I should have known

22:47

they'd back out. I waved my assistant

22:49

off and walked to the oven.

22:52

I looked at little me sleeping

22:56

so peacefully in the stove. My,

23:01

his chest expanding

23:03

and contracting. One

23:05

of my special touches is to add a breath cycle.

23:08

They don't need to breathe. It just adds

23:10

to the comfort of those around the construct. I

23:13

reached out to the purge valve and

23:15

my hand hovered over release. I

23:19

don't know why. I could

23:21

afford the hit on my plasma and endocrine supplies.

23:24

And it wasn't like he had a home to go to.

23:28

Unless. That

23:31

night I pulled into my driveway.

23:34

So this is where we're going to live from now on,

23:37

Ant. Little Anthony

23:39

studied my modest house.

23:42

I didn't like the eyes he was making

23:44

at it. He turned

23:46

to me. All right. I

23:49

tried to remember how I calibrated

23:51

his gratitude spectrum, but saw

23:54

he was fiddling with the locked door, so I rushed to

23:56

open it for him. He walked right

23:58

in. Not a whiff.

23:59

of thanks, so

24:02

I must not have turned his gratitude very high.

24:05

That night I stayed up and checked on Little

24:07

Anthony a few times. I

24:09

wanted to make sure his recuperation was

24:11

on schedule and he was meeting his baseline. After

24:13

the second, purely

24:16

clinical, visit, he

24:18

asked me not to come in anymore

24:21

and to knock if I needed anything.

24:25

Was I this much of a little asshole? I

24:28

thought about emailing my parents, but they'd

24:30

probably report me for not disposing

24:32

of the build. I didn't sleep.

24:36

The next morning and the next few weeks and

24:38

the next few months followed a similar

24:40

pattern. Little Anthony would be a dickhead

24:43

despite my best efforts. He

24:45

was nothing like me. I

24:47

examined all my hardware for defects or errors,

24:50

but I couldn't trace the source of this inconsistency.

24:53

I even had a

24:55

science shaman give my

24:57

lab a non-denominational blessing.

25:00

I asked for a science-based exorcism

25:02

from Little Anthony, but the shaman

25:05

politely declined. I

25:07

accepted I'd have to reprogram Little

25:10

Anthony, which is very difficult once

25:12

you encase his personality unit in his

25:14

brain. Really, your only options

25:16

at that point are conversational.

25:20

So I conversed. It

25:23

took time for him to open up, but when he

25:25

did, I could see that external factors

25:27

were weighing on him heavily. The

25:30

kids at school were unwelcoming. He

25:32

felt above all the schoolwork,

25:34

and he grappled nightly with the question

25:37

of whether he was a person or

25:39

not due to his being formed in

25:41

a lab.

25:42

And that's when I realized, aside

25:44

from the existential crisis, these

25:46

were all issues I faced. I

25:49

opened up to Little Anthony. I told

25:51

him how the kids at school called me Lame-Thiny,

25:55

which didn't

25:55

even rhyme, and my

25:57

teachers often consulted with me on the phone.

26:00

on next year's lesson plan. And

26:02

little Anthony smiled. I

26:05

had to resist the urge to run a diagnostic.

26:07

Instead, I enjoyed the moment.

26:10

Hey, aunt, I started?

26:14

Yeah. Mind

26:16

if we talk like this more often? I

26:19

could see little Anthony computating a

26:21

response. That's no problem.

26:24

I tapped the bed and smiled. This

26:27

was a breakthrough. I

26:29

rubbed his head and floated to my bedroom.

26:32

I thought of all the possibilities little Anthony

26:35

and I could explore together. And

26:37

as I drifted off, I wondered if he'd

26:40

let me examine his processing core to do

26:42

a check against baseline. I'll

26:45

wait,

26:46

I thought.

26:48

Baby steps. I

26:50

always hope my heart Mass medtains to mine Paul. Because

26:55

I didn't really feel the shape yet. Okay. Hidden

27:03

signal, The excavator and hidden signal kid stuff are

27:07

narrated by Ashton Herald written by bem Woman

27:10

directed by Lawrence Sinelli. Executive

27:13

produced by Rob Herzing Sandra Y Lieb Sarah

27:16

Ma and Tom Breck. Original

27:18

score and composition by Darren Johnson.

27:21

Audio engineering and editing by Sarah Ma.

27:24

Script supervisor, Tom Breck. Special

27:26

thanks to Jack Friedman and Nick Shanks. This

27:29

podcast was

27:29

recorded under a sag after a collective bargaining

27:32

agreement. Hidden signal is a cue code

27:34

production. Sound recording copyright 2023

27:37

by cue code media Inc.

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