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Rachel was worried about Karen. To anyone looking in from the outside, they might think that Rachel was jealous of the attention that Karen was giving to Coppélia, but the truth was that she was afraid that the line between android and human was becoming blurred, to Karen at least. Rachel readily admitted that Coppélia looked every inch a human being, even in her movements which were fluid and natural, but at the end of the day, she was still a machine. Sure, she herself used the female pronoun when talking about Coppélia – it was hard not to –but Rachel had no problem remembering that Coppélia wasn’t human. She hadn’t been born or even grown in a test-tube. She wasn’t a clone – she’d been assembled from components. Coppélia reacted to social cues just as anyone might, but was that rea
