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August 2, 2007

From The Comments: Barb

“Your baby, your way”…sang the snappy radio commercial.
“Predictable. Reliable. And no messy sex.”

Hillary hummed along as she slid a rack of test tube babies across the stainless steel countertop at Synergism Laboratory. Human cloning was fashionable now.

“Two decades ago, in 2007, folks protested when the word “clone” was added to birth certificates,” she harrumphed, reaching into the pocket of her white lab jacket.

Unfolding the glassine paper, she uncapped a tube and sprinkled in one milligram of 2,4,dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. “One agricultural mad scientist to go,” she chuckled, labeling the boy for shipment to Con-Agra, Peoria, Illinois, USA.

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