She's Taking It

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Leon I grimace as I walk out of the small two story house. I'm going to regret it, but quitting may be the only way to save her. The rate she's going, she'll be dead by the time Penny's five. At the latest. I love Sloane like my sister, but I've already lost two of those; I don't want to go through it again. God, this is why I like robots and technology much more than people. They're so much simpler. They can't die; if they crash, you just...fix em. Make 'em better. You can't do that with people. You can't open a corpse's back, input a code and get them running just like new again. It doesn't work that way. I sit on the lawn. I know if I leave, something bad will happen and no one will be there. Sure enough, ten minutes later I get a text. Help. Migraine. I stand up, brush ima

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