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[call_me_spooky]

We may choose to question, to doubt, the evidence of our senses; but we cannot easily deny them. We interact with the world through our bodies; and so when we find them changed, might not our perception of the world change? Or am I me in some fashion that defies the flesh entirely. I'm not touching the battle of the sexes nonsense with a ten-

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[orderonto]

People are a process, not a product. 'You' are still you, no matter what you were five minutes ago or will be five minutes from now.

[call_me_spooky]

I'm thinking more might-have-beens than might-bes.

[orderonto]

What did that woman look like? The missing one?

[call_me_spooky]

Donna? Red hair, English, kind of excitable. Seen her?

[orderonto]

No. But I'm sure that she's alright.

If I see her, I'll definitely let you know.

[call_me_spooky]

I appreciate it, Dr. Suresh.

You weren't.. switched.. the other day, were you?

[orderonto]

Of course. I live to serve or something along that platitude.

I wasn't. I don't know that I would have been deeply bothered by it. I was raised Hindu.

[call_me_spooky]

There's a slight difference between believing in reincarnation, though, and waking up one morning in a new and unfamiliar body.

[orderonto]

Yes, I suppose there is. But female is, of course, still human. Which to me seems as if it should be not much concern for alarm.

And yet it caused a great deal of alarm.

[call_me_spooky]

Mn, I don't disagree that most people... overreacted.