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<p>There were more crying eyes in the crowd now, and she was crying/she was crying.</p>
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<p>Her voice wavered, but she asked all the same. “Please fork. Please fork and merge down-tree.”</p>
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<p>In less than five seconds, the number of copies of her had doubled, and some inner part of her/some inner part of her smiled, sensing now that doubling that she felt as a core part of her being expressed in all those versions of herself that had grown these last nearly two centuries.</p>
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<p>“Since then — ‘tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day–” she began, and then as a chorus, her clade joined her. “I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity —”</p>
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<p>“Since then — ‘tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day–” she began, and then as a chorus, her clade joined her. “I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity —“</p>
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<p>Many were sitting now, some were pulling at tufts of grass, stalks of dandelions, anything to ground themselves.</p>
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<p>“I just want…we just want to experience…a little more,” she choked out. “Can you give us that?”</p>
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<p>The reasons for the forks became clear, now, and over the next five minutes — for some had diverged so far that a great amount of effort was required — they began to merge their outermost instances down-tree, down-tree, down toward the root. Many looked shell-shocked as years and decades and centuries of memories poured into them, and then were passed on down. Many looked as mad as she felt.</p>
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