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Why, you're all blue
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and you are white
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Me, ugly? You've got to be kidding
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it doesn't come off.
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you'res must come off
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don't be foolish. Who are you? Where did you come form? How did you get to this sacred place?
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Won't number one be upset if we disturb him?
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We have no choice. None of know what to do. 764, you go.. immediately.
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All Right..
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what is your number?
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Number?
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Yes... in your cell..what number have you been given
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Born?
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I think she means how did we come into existence?
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Oh.. Why didn't she say thaT?
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Tracey.. we were given existence in the sacred laboratory.
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you mean by a test tube?
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There is no test connected with it. When one of our cell is terminated we are created to replace it.
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you say the most outlandish things..
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It is very simple. When the period of our cell is over we are terminated. There is nothing else to say about it.
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How long do you get to live before you are terminated
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I am not sure. None of us really think about it. We wait until we are called into number one and he tells us it is time.
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where is number one?
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Tracey, we are the most mature in our cell. No one gets more mature. Is this what you are asking?
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What about the little ones?
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Those who are not able to take care of themselves are kept in a special place until they are able to take a place in the cell. There are 999 of us. We are never allowed to grow any larger.
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How many cells are there
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I haven't the faintest idea.
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Number one enters
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It is number one.
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I thought 764 was exaggerating
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The question, your holiness, is what do we do?
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Well, that is obvious.
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It is?
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I like the way I look
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I do not think it is necessary to ridicule tracey.
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The sun? What is that?
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I think she means the source of all life.
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Oh.
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We, too, are the third planet from the source of all life.
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Number one, this person is obviously unbalance.
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I do not think tracey is unbalanced.
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Then what do you think she is number one?
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I think she is just... different.
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you believe her?
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yes, I do
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Oh! I will not listen to this any more!
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Number one, I have heard some of the earlier legends of our race.
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What old legends?
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They are just myths you understand. Talk talk that I have heard of snatches of.
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What are they? What do you mean?
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That once many cycles ago, we, too, had differences of skin and hair.
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And in the sacred place
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And there are stories.. just stories mind you that when we are created in the sacred laboratory we all have different coloring.
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You are very close to being blasphemous
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I... I was just relating some old legends which I have heard.
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They are ridiculous and untrue.
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Yes, I know...
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You are not all exactly alike
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How.. How do you mean?
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I will not do it.
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Oh tracey, you must.
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Not you, 411.
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But..
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You seem to share some kind of empathy with her kind.
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No, Holy one, you misunderstand. I only wanted to...
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I..I'm sorry if I caused you trouble.
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That you did! You did cause me trouble. But it was not all your fault.Why will you not turn blue?
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Because I don't want to.. I'm stubbor, I guess.
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Stubborn? That is a foreign word?
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Daddy says I'm stubborn.
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Daddy? Your..
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My father. The one who is raising me, along with my mother.
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What a strange world you must live in!
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I miss them both
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Miss them? Why?
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DOn't you know what love is?
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No..
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Like a parent or a husband or a wife.
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Traey, I do not know what you are talking about. All those words mean nothing to me.
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What do you do?
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What?
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Your job? Toil?
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Toil? Oh, toil.. none of us do work.
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But how do you get food? Who provides the food?
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Our food is plentiful. We simply take what we need from the trees and bushes.
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You all eat vegetables?
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What does that mean?
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You don't eat meat?
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Meat? Eat Meat?
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The flesh of animals
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What are animals
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What's wrong?
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the thought of eating meat...flesh..just pass through my mind. Suddenly, I feel very strange in my stomach. Please, speak of something else, quickly.
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Where did you learn what you know?
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I was created with all the knowledge I need fo rexistence. There is no need for any more.
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Do you have books?
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No
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Do you newspapers?
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What are newspapers? NO
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An alphabet?
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No! You have me so confused. I don't understand any of these questions.
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What do oyu do all day?
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Do?
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Your existence?
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We, why we eat and sleep and walk and talk and laugh, of course, we pray to the sacred cabinet.
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That's all?
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Yes, that is all! We need no more! That is what we do until it comes time for us to be terminated.
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I'm surprised you don't terminate yourself.
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That is a sin. It is not allowed!
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You mean some have tried
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We are not allowed to talk of such things. Self-terminated is a sin so strong we are not allowed to even think about it.
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It seems to be there a lot of things you're not allowed to talk about.
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You are disturbing me. I am not used to being disturbed. It confuses me.
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Is everything all right 411?
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Yes
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Did she try to escape
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No.. no, she did not try to escape.
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Yes... alone..
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Oh tracey, consider it. To be alone forever what a horrible future to think about.
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Turn blue!
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Tracey, you will turn blue, then?
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411, stay I want to talk while the others are gone.
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What is it you want to talk about, Holy one.
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You are disturbed?
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Yes, somewhat.
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why?
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Because this tracey logan has shaked me.
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Your beliefs?
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She questions the way we live.
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We are taught from the very beginning not to question.
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I know that
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Then what is your concern
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Was our race ever like hers?
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I am not sure.
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Is it possible?
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Of course it is possible.
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Where is she from? Is she from another place or another time?
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There is more on your mind..tell me.
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Holy One, I talked earlier about the old legends..the myths I have only heard about.
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yes?
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I remember other stories as well....
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Go on...
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I.. I.. have heard that there have been a few... just a few among us who have refused to turn blue.
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Although not in recent times.
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What has happened to them?
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They went into the wilderness ot live.
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I want to understand! Why would anyone do that?
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WE are perpetually happy.
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Are we?
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What do you mean?
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I mean, how can we know we are happy? We are never said.
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Old legends and old myths should stay unsaid and unspoken.
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But..
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Where there are differences among people, horrible things begin to happen.
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What horrible things?
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It is said that people killed one another over these differences
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That is impossible.
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That is just what I have heard.
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This travey.. she mentioned such strange words.
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oh?
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Yes.. she mentioned words like books and alphabet and parents and... love. Do you know what love is, holy one?
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No..No i do not know waht love is.
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Neither do I... but... but why do I have this feeling that it is something I would like to know.
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Forget what she has said.
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But..
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Do you understand?
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Yes, holy one.
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Not to anyone..
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I understand, Holy one.
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I will not turn blue
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Tracey, please reconsider.
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Everyone leaves.
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Tracey.. you will be alone forever. is that what you want?
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I don't want to be alone.
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Then, turn blue.
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I can't. I just can't.
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Then good bye.
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Ah, I see you have decided to come to your sensed.
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Tracey, you have turned blue.
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I didn't want to be all alone.
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I know..
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I didn't want to turn blue!
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I understand.
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But you wish that I hadn't don't you?
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It is not for me to say. I could not face a life of loneliness, either. It is over now. Come.
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