Despite his heavy workload in the genetics fabrication lab, Joe followed the headlines as best as he could.
And when the Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage was a civil right, he knew that it was only a matter of time.
“What about identical twins?” he asked an attorney friend.
“That’s just… wrong,” they said.
Joe sighed, hung up the phone, and stared through the glass wall of the fabrication tank.
Staring back from the tank, Joe Prime twitched and shuddered from the tiny shocks that the holographic micro-current neuroinducer used to copy Joes memories into his brain.
And smiled.