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Cause of death: Head trauma
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"So, we could fix that for you as well, although - well, how do you feel about that idea, if it involved direct mental editing instead of months of - you'd object, wouldn't you, if I called it - instead of months of treatment?"

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"There is no longer anything to be fixed, as I said."

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"No, I mean, should we put you back."

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"Back to... certainly not, why would you do that?"

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"For your happiness and personal flourishing."

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"That does not seem like call to reverse someone's medical treatment."

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"As I said, we disagree on whether what you experienced was that.  But it was only an interest check; I'm not planning to push the matter."

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"I see, thank you."

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"The bacheloret for the season we'd like to put you on is a man, though."

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"I don't understand how you chose me or what you - know about me - but -"

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The guy waits for Kyeo to finish his sentence.

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"- the last time I was set up in this way it did not go well," Kyeo says eventually.

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"I'm not sure I would describe you as ever having been set up in this way.  The resemblance is... very superficial.  At best."

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"You want to put me in a situation where I am meant to - exhibit - availability to -" They fixed his throat but apparently not the thing where occasionally the world pretends to end hard enough that he believes it.

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"Hey, woah.  Would you like to not feel like that right now?"

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What kind of question is that. Does he have empathic powers. Kyeo stares at him for a moment then nods.

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The guy produces a box from the inside of his suit and then a tab from inside the box.  "Under the tongue," he instructs.

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This man is probably not in fact a doctor but maybe he doesn't have to be? Kyeo puts it under his tongue. The end of the world spins to a graceless halt.

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"I think the difference where we're not encouraging you to do something duplicitous, and in fact are specifically trying to cultivate something authentic, is a pretty key one."

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"I'm not sure any of the difficulty was due to inauthenticity."

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"Seems to me that the difficulty was in the people engineering the situation expecting inauthenticity.  We don't."

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"You can keep these."  He passes the rest of the box over.

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"Thank you."

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