If we ever did get out of the body, said Polly, if we were uploads, what would happen to online dating? I mean, there’d be no photographs of what we look like because we wouldn’t look like anything. That’s funny, I said. It would be like it was in the past, when there were pen pals but no cameras. There’d be no straight, gay, male, female, cis, trans. What happens to labels when there is no biology? How do we even romance without labels? said Polly. We hate them but they’re part of the attraction. Maybe not. Maybe we’d get to know someone and when we were ready we’d download ourselves into a
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