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Hate to break it to you Lia, but your dad is a racist.
You already told us your parents specifically paid for daughters with Aryan features, your dad quotes Nazi phrases from his ancestral home of Germany, he says things like “Statute of limitations on grudges expires after a hundred years” (about the Holocaust) and gets your teacher fired for telling you about the aforementioned Holocaust.
#SorryAboutYourRacistDad
This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week; whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written.
As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen — the last day I deserved — would have involved more chocolate.
Summary:
The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn’t supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.
And it wasn’t supposed to ruin her life.
Lia knows she should be grateful she didn’t die in the accident. The Download saved her–but it also changed her, forever. She can deal with being a freak. She can deal with the fear in her parents’ eyes and the way her boyfriend flinches at her touch. But she can’t deal with what she knows, deep down, every time she forces herself to look in the mirror: She’s not the same person she used to be.
Maybe she’s not even a person at all.
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