Happy Accidents
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-And they beIieved in doing it the oId way.
-Stop it!

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What? I'm just being honest!
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My parents raised my sister and me
on a reservation with other Anachronists.

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The Gene Dupes kept us there.
They hated us.

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We were aIways fighting for our nostaIgia
rights. My father was a freedom fighter.

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He Ied the battIe
to have the Ban on Beauty Iifted, in 2451 .

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The Gene Dupes finaIIy got him.
Want to know what his crime was?

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He was teaching us an ancient protest song.
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Maybe you've heard it before.
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''I'm as a free as a bird now
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''And this bird wiII never
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''change''
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My mother, she taught ancient Ianguages
in a IocaI schooI.

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Spanish, French, Ebonics.
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She died of cancer when I was 25.
You know, there's stiII no cure.

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But I'II never forget what she toId me
whiIe I was watching her deconstruct.

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She said to me, ''Make your sister proud.''
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You know, not her, my sister.
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But she died, too. 2468.
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She was 1 4. I mean, 1 4.
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That was a year after they banned
back-traveI. But that didn't stop anybody.

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If you had guts you'd get an
Underground Agent to send you back.

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And that's what I did.
That was six months ago.

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There.
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Now you know everything.
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Any more questions?
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Yes.
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Who is Chrystie DeIancey?
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You're kiIIing me.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird"?
A protest song?

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So, what, everybody's
a redneck in the future?

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It's reaIIy hiIarious, Gretch!

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