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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 14:54:52 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <094l2kpssuma76mrcpd7ad043ssehil0q4@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 8 May 2025 15:28:22 -0500, Lynn McGuire
><lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>There is cloning all over SF.  Miles Vorkosigan is cloned with a brother 
>>along with many others in the Vorkosigan books on the Jackson's Whole 
>>planet.  Miles and his family even treat his clone brother as a full 
>>fledged family member.
>>
>And the kicker was that the clone was what Miles would have been like
>physically had he not been exposed to a nerve agent in childhood.
>
>Mark Vorkosigan was VERY different from Miles not surprising since his
>childhood experiences were so different - but then not even identical
>twins have similar life experiences most of the time.

My uncle by marriage Don had an identical twin Doug. They deliberately
pursued very similar lives: both athletes (although only Don had the
chance to change American history by suplexing Rumfeld hard enough
to kill him, which sadly Don did not), both got married on the same 
day, both were determined to avoid their dad's early death from a 
heart attack... unaware their family had a tendency for dementia
that would kick in if they lived long enough.  

But they decided the one thing they weren't going to do was buy 
houses in the same neighbourhood. So Gig and Don went out to look
at houses and Doug and Betsy went out to look at houses and they
didn't compare addresses. Thus, they ended up on different streets...
on lots with a common property line. You could step from Don's back
yard onto Doug's.  


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