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Murph smacked him on the shoulder “Do you honestly think we all don’t know that?”

Julia couldn’t suppress a smile, more certain than ever that neither of these paraet very far with Janni

“I talked toat all She said that to light a fire under my tail Kyle has always been a follower—you know, someone easily swayed by peer pressure He fell in with the wrong crowd in high school, and that’s how he ended up busted for drugs His rehab counselor told me Kyle doesn’t have an addiction probleroup at some demonstration and within a few days he declared hiist about a little snip-snip and is now in Greece Apparently, they have some sort of compound on the Peloponnesian Peninsula”

“He had a vasectomy?” Julia asked “He’s only twenty-one or twenty-two There aren’t many doctors ill perform one on a man much before thirty unless he already has a family”

“Kyle’s twenty-three, and the Responsivists have their own doctors that do nothing but vasecto”

“I hadn’t heard of Responsivists before Jannike mentioned them,” Juan said

“I don’t know much myself,” Max admitted “Just what Lisa told me”

“You guys need to read ossip,” Julia said “Ever heard of Donna Sky?”

“The actress?” Mark asked

“The highest-paid actress in history, as a matter of fact She’s a Responsivist So are a lot of people in the fil in Hollywood”

“Is it a church or a cult or so?”

“No one is exactly sure At least, no one on the outside,” she replied “It was started back in the seventies by a geneticist na cheaper drugs to fighthundreds of millions of lives

“He didn’t see it that way, at least not after a while, as he watched population explosions all over the globe By eradicating diseases, he had helped remove one of the natural checks and balances in hu , and then , too Without disease, he started to argue, hu numbers

“He wrote a book on the subject, and began to crusade for faroup of like-minded people, the Responsivists, which comes from ‘those who are responsible’ Soon, the an to attract so-name people from all walks of life, politicians, sports stars, actors and actresses Cooper died about ten years ago, but the movement’s flourished under a husband-and-wife team I don’t know their names, off the top of my head”

“What does this group do now?” Juan asked