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Once he was sure that ere alone, or as alone as it was possible to be in the bowels of Syot to stop dozing off during tests that are supposed to be upsetting, Sal It’s not norns of not norive the that old fa to coil around ht we already deter fro disorder"
Shero ofto start toward the door back to the hall After a moment’s indecision, I followed his I had to a friend at SymboGen, but the coirl who should never have been allowed behind the wheel of a car If it caiven
The normal swirl of reetings and chatterfurther conversation impossible Sher anyainst my chest, until we reached the next lab, where I was handed a plastic cup by a technician I’d never seen before and directed, firmly, to the nearest bathroom Very fir the door behind enetically modified tapeworm, the people at SymboGen could be awfully prudish about basic bodily functions The first few times I had to take a urine test after they took out ht in thethat once it was explained to me why it was inappropriate, but they still acted like there was a chance I ot They were the ones who asked for the urine sample It’s not like I volunteered it
There are ti my childhood and the normal human socialization that I have to assulad to be free of all the baggage Everybody pees, especially when they’re ordered to do so by lab techs
As soon as the cup was full to the line on the side, I capped it firned for that specific purpose Apparently, urine was viewed as so powerful that it could even contah plastic if not properly contained Once that was safely done, I washed and sanitizedon the bathroom door "You can let me out now," I said "I’m done"
"Are you quite sure?" asked Sher note in his voice I was forgiven for pushing hi to have yourself an extracurricular widdle"
"Widdle?" I asked, laughing "Oh, you so made that one up"
"Don’t test me," he recommended, and opened the bathroom door As in Dr Lo’s lab, the technician had vanished Sher around for him and clapped a hand down on my shoulder "Paul couldn’t abide your radiance, hed "The new guys still think I’m a freak of nature, huh?"
"To be charitable, Sal, you are a freak of nature You survived the unsurvivable, you recovered fro blood drawn People who don’t know you like the rest of us do just don’t have a frame of reference for you, that’s all And they have work to do Your appearance is good for hours of overtiht conversation?"
"You’ve co of human nature," said Sher, if y lab Let’s fill you up with delicious bariuood to me," I said sourly, and followed him back into the hall Just another day at SymboGen, where there’s no test too small, or too invasive, to run on a captive audience
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--FROM "THE DEVELOPMENT AND LIFE CYCLE OF DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM SYMBOGENESIS," ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE STANFORD SCIENCE REVIEW, JUNE 2017
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