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Olivier continued to manage the company, and after a prosperous year, he received a large bonus and a month of vacation after the Morelli project. He got a raise and additional subordinates. In turn, the European branch was shut down after a failed project and its clone manager was turned off.
Expansion was quite challenging in this line of business, but the company planned to charge Olivier with opening an American office.
Olivier was smart, learned, and intelligent. He was aware of the most important thing in his life: his survival depended on his knowledge, so he continuously developed himself to know more about people, art, and love—something he would never be able to experience, but he never quite understood why. He suspected that his creators eliminated such feelings from him,
