Well, I was procrastinating, and I knew it. I took a deep breath and walked slowly up to the bed. I remembered the first time I’d seen Julia Hendricks, on a video call with Minister Cranston. I remembered the stomach-dropping shock as I looked at an almost perfect likeness of my sister, Julia’s several-times-great-grandmother. She still looked like Andrea, like Andrea would have looked had I been alive to see her as a grandmother. I reached down, put my hand against Julia’s cheek. The first time I’d ever touched her. Well, it seems Howard finally installed tear ducts. Damn. I wiped my eyes,
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