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Why do you hate your mother?

Dr. Kevin Waterman was used to asking that question, butтАФfor onceтАФknew it couldn't possibly apply.
Misfiring reflexes weren't the psychiatrist's only cause of discomfort, either. Here he lay, his short,
roly-poly self draped across the office couch, while the patient paced about the room. Waterman's
notepad was distressingly uncluttered. Whatever had possessed him to accept this case?

He sat up, running pudgy fingers through the residual fringe of black hair, while Acey prattled on about
software development. The next time that his patient walked by, Waterman stuck out his leg; Acey glided
through the obstruction without pausing.

The psychiatrist was currently sharing his consultation room with a hologram. The real Acey could not
attend, today or any other day. The real patient was an artificial intelligence. Waterman sighed to himself:
it only got worse. The computer nerd currently walking through his desk was only today's persona.
Yesterday, Acey was an economist; only Freud and Von Neumann working together could guess what
he might be tomorrow.

He? Since when was Acey a he? Maybe, Waterman thought, he himself did belong stretched out on the