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Stephanie, but later began to realize it was something else. It
had something to do with what Jason's father had told him, that
Bradley, Frederick and Stephanie were Dittos and Jason was the
real thing, a natural child. The other children were "replaceable"
and Jason was not.
It was almost nine months to the day when he heard Stephanie
was alive again. Her mother and father brought her over so that
Jason could see her, because they said he was a hero for trying so
hard to bring her out of the canyon. He was perplexed when they
held out a tiny bundle of blankets. Jason held her in his arms, a
tiny little figure with no hair and stubby arms and legs. He could
see a little of Stephanie in the baby's face, but that was all.
When they left, he tugged on his mother's sleeve and said, "That
wasn't Stephanie."
"Yes it was, Jason. It's just that she's younger than she
was."
He didn't believe her. He couldn't. Even when he was older
and understood the concept, she still wasn't the same person to
him. She grew to look just like the Stephanie he knew; she acted
the same, talked the same . . . but she didn't look at him the
same.
Over the years the colony's forests and farmlands spread past
the horizon, and thousands upon thousands of new people came there
to live and work. Jason, as a man, often walked to the canyon's
edge and stared into the mists, throwing rocks and --- sometimes


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--- even calling out Stephanie's name. When the ghostly echoes
came back he liked to imagine it was her spirit drifting in the
mist, answering. During these times he would leave the canyon
feeling a little better, a little lighter, as if she had reached
out through the mist and touched him.

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