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hi

hi one day when you are old enough you

will be impregnated with a perfect clone

of yourself you will later upload all of

your memories into this healthy new body

one day long after that you will repeat

this process all over again through this

cloning process Emily you will hope to

live forever

I had lunch today

I am a third generation Emily contacting

you from 227 years into your future and

I would like you to know that everything

is going well in the transfer and

cloning process with very few signs of

Montel totario region

that Grandma no Emily I am not your

grandmother in a sense you are mine I am

Emily Emily for those who cannot afford

the cloning process many of our elderly

undergo a full digital transfer of

Consciousness where they can experience

a safe extended lifespan of hundreds of

years our grandfather's digital

Consciousness currently resides in this

Cube where I upload the latest films and

books for him to enjoy every week

Grandpa we are also able to download

correspondence from him over 1 000

letters were received during his first

hour in storage as this was

approximately four years time inside the

cube I will read one of his letters to

you now

oh oh God oh God oh God oh my God holy

mother of God oh oh oh God the end of

life procedures for our less affluent

citizens in the lower classes the face

of a deceased loved one can be peeled

off preserved and stretched over the

head of the simple animatronic robot so

they can still be a part of someone's

life

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our view screens allow us to witness any

event in history By reordering the Light

Impressions recorded upon the subatomic

partner that are in constant chaos all

around us it is how I am watching you

now Emily it is how we watch everything

in your time our more recent history is

often just comprised of images of other

people watching view screens

do you like my cars

how I'm contacting you today though

Emily is through experimental time

travel

time travel for physical beings is a

much more difficult process than sending

a message

if the position of the orbiting Earth at

your destination date is not accurately

calculated a person could be sent off

the planet many of our brave test clones

are also still regularly crushed beneath

the ground or accidentally deposited

hundreds of thousands of years into the

past

time travel is very often unpredictable

and still extremely dangerous Emily I

shall now use time travel to bring you

to my current location in time

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hey butterfly

oh I saw some pink one the people of

your time were engaged with something

called the internet welcome Emily to the

alternate we are now connected through a

neural network

green

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blue

some lines are coming now

yes Emily Prime to the people of your

time our technology must seem like magic

and

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blue and green

that's all the colors I got for all of

its magic the alternate can be a sad

Place many lonely people from the lower

classes have disappeared into its safe

Infinity to be never heard from again

look I draw a triangle

I drew a snake boy

but some someday you have to not make a

sneak boy because I when I yesterday I

didn't see any sleep boys but you made

one

yes and I do the other but golden round

things I have no idea what you're

talking about wiggle wiggle wiggle okay

I have many memories that I would like

to share with you now Emily we can go

visit them together like seeing pictures

in a book please follow me into the

window

Circle

when I was your age there was a

controversial new exhibit in the Modern

Art Museum

an artist placed a clone on display in a

stasis tube a child without a brain that

the public could watch grow old in real

time

can you smell the floor polish

the Museum's antiseptic but musty odor

of countless Generations in passing well

why

Museum visitors nicknamed the body David

and it became a popular attraction

regular visitors ate lunch in his wing

classrooms of children came to learn

about Anatomy people who'd speak quietly

to him in the night people who'd pay him

a visit whenever they found themselves

back in the city and remembered he was

there when it says it's old yes

David grows older and older until he

dies at the age of 72.

he is quietly removed from display

without publicity as per the artist's

original instructions he is mourned and

deeply missed throughout the city

I can still remember its eyes

its blinking eyes eyes

there's something in my museum and

there's they don't move

and now here's somebody talking a lot

yes that is the memory I just shared

with you because I have brought you

inside of it you are now mistaking the

memory for your own

okay we mustn't linger it is easy to get

lost in memories

my first job was supervising robots on

the moon

are you familiar with robots yes I

always like Roblox

foreign

I enjoyed working with them I enjoyed

the Solitude the robots are solar

powered and must always be kept on the

light side of the moon's surface to

motivate them to constantly move within

the drifting sunlight I programmed them

to fear death and what lies on the dark

side of the moon the skin dark outside

it was here on the moon that I fell in

love with a rock

I did not understand my mental and

emotional shortcomings at the time and

only knew that I found this rock to be

immensely attractive

sparkly

the economy on the lunar surface went

through a recession and I was sent home

after six Cycles

my rock and I were separated

but the robots were too expensive to

remove to this day they are still in

Perpetual movement across the sunlight

with no work to do no more tasks to

accomplish still living in constant fear

of death and occasionally sending us

depressed poetry I will read one of

their poems to you now Emily

the light is life robot must move move

robot move

but why

move move move

robot forever move

I was relocated to supervise the

construction robots on the boundary of

the Kiowa in deep space

it was there that I fell in love with

the fuel pump this part of my life

continued to develop and it was much

more gratifying than the Rock

in one of the tropical Moon caves I

found an abandoned nest of eggs it's

purple

he opened the lids like that and then it

comes off

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a monster

that's his mouth

no that's his mouth

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I named it Simon

Simon yes again you think you remember

because you were experiencing a memory

from my point of view yeah Simon grew up

and followed me around for seven years

saying unintelligible things

yeah

we fell in love

for vacations we sailed in balloons on

Mars he's flying but I missed my home

I missed something deeper

did you miss me

yes

at Birth I had inherited from you the

memory of myself meeting you right now

what

I made a decision to be reassigned to

Earth and spend more time with people

these became the happiest years of my

life

but Simon was inconsolable

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for many years memories could only be

harvested from the dead

the images were fished out blindly from

random clusters of neurons and looked

like this

I opened an art gallery of anonymous

memories

and it was here that I met my husband

he was a clone as well from the same

source as David the boy in the tube I

felt I had known all my life only now

his beautiful sparkly eyes were lit with

the mind of his prime a David from over

400 years ago

as an older clone he showed many signs

of deterioration

but I loved him as though we were

Originals

he died suddenly

and David's line was permanently ended

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thing about the present Emily Prime

you only appreciate it when it is the

past

I harvested his memories and they still

bring me happiness

this is one of my favorite of his

memories and I cannot explain why he is

descending a staircase and sees a large

Plant blowing in the wind flopping its

fronds together in a sort of plant

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I have viewed this memory over six

thousand times you missed him

I do not have the mental or emotional

capacity to deal with his loss

but sometimes I sit in a chair late at

night and quietly feel very bad

when the night is at its most quiet I

can hear death

I am very proud of my sadness because it

means I am more alive

I no longer fall in love with rocks

in 60 days from now a meteor will strike

the Earth and most everyone here will

die horribly

our wealthiest individuals are now

uploading their digital consciousnesses

into cubes that they are launching into

deep space

our lower classes are desperately trying

to escape the meteor through discount

time travel causing Untold Millions to

die in orbit

their dead bodies burn as they return to

Earth and now light up our night sky

what's this up in the sky dead bodies

yes it is very pretty

oh okay

no they're all dead I'll count them well

we are all doomed Emily Prime even those

on the interplanetary ports they are

rumored to be burying the Clones of

world leaders beneath the Earth

Emily Prime there is another reason I

have contacted you today you retain an

early memory that I have forgotten that

it was very important to me I wish to

retrieve it from you before I die

I shall extract this memory from you now

this is me and Mommy

this is me and Mommy walking

this is me and Mommy walking

oh a rainbow thank you Emily this will

bring me great comfort in the days ahead

you missed it I saw it you missed it

this is your future Emily prime it is

sometimes a sad life and it is a long

life you will feel a deep longing for

something you can't quite remember it

will be a beautiful visit

and then we shall share the same fate as

the rest of the human race

dying horribly

the advice I give you now is the advice

I remember receiving from myself at your

age in this moment

so I cannot be certain where it actually

originated from

do not lose time on daily trivialities

do not dwell on Petty detail but all of

these things melt away and drift apart

within each pure traffic of time

live well and live broadly you are alive

and living now now is the Envy of all of

the Dead

okay thank you Emily prime it has been

an honor to meet you and a joy to emerge

from your third generation birth canal I

shall now return you to your home and

current time

I will not contact you again

goodbye

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what a happy day it is

daffodils

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oh look at these pretty colors

I can see the sun is still there

still there and the rainbow still there

but the rain is still there and rainbow

doesn't go away

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