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Kaelen ran a hand through their hair, which felt more like fine optic fibers than protein. For Kaelen, the ancient worries about "men" and "women" felt like worrying about which side of a coin was up when the coin had long since melted into a single sphere.

"We didn't lose who we were," Jara replied, appearing as a soft glow beside them. "We just stopped being parts and started being the whole." Kaelen ran a hand through their hair, which

Kaelen looked at the fragment of p362 again. The author had been worried about planes falling out of the sky or nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia. Those "bad guys" were gone, replaced by a global collective mind that didn't know how to hate because it didn't know how to be "separate." "We just stopped being parts and started being the whole