[He doesn't have a real answer ready, and it's only half because of course, there isn't any answer, he shouldn't be any different. The other half, the more paralyzing half, comes from twenty years of knowing he looks different, he feels different, he doesn't connect to people the same way. There's so much he's never been able to tell people. So much of himself he couldn't share, the way everyone else shares, the way people become part of people, collective.]
It's different for the guys, they know me. They'd keep me around even if I was some kind of soulless monster, probably. But how can you... How can anyone else trust me like a human, knowing I was... made, like that? That I'm something artificial, like--like those fake plastic plants people have in their offices, or, or soy bacon.
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[He doesn't have a real answer ready, and it's only half because of course, there isn't any answer, he shouldn't be any different. The other half, the more paralyzing half, comes from twenty years of knowing he looks different, he feels different, he doesn't connect to people the same way. There's so much he's never been able to tell people. So much of himself he couldn't share, the way everyone else shares, the way people become part of people, collective.]
It's different for the guys, they know me. They'd keep me around even if I was some kind of soulless monster, probably. But how can you... How can anyone else trust me like a human, knowing I was... made, like that? That I'm something artificial, like--like those fake plastic plants people have in their offices, or, or soy bacon.