"Oh yeah. Fucks you right up. Especially because, once we clones were adults, romantic partner seemed to be an especially popular choice for monitors. You know, access to where you live, reasons to stay over at night without raising suspicions. And also a huge fucking betrayal. Sometimes the people running the experiment tricked the monitors into what they were doing: One of my sisters' husbands thought he was participating in some sort of long-term sociology experiment." She doesn't say bless, but it's in her tone. Donnie loved Alison but was also a man who'd look for "gullible" written on the ceiling.

"But sometimes people were working for the company, and then they'd get close to a clone actively knowing why. That happened to my sister Beth. And it's how I met Delphine. She was posing as an immunology student at my university. Trying to get close to me on purpose, it turns out. Ironically, not romantically as far as I know. She thought she was straight when we met." Funny old world. "But she was really hot, I've got to emphasize that to you. French accent, great hair, brilliant brain. So we hooked up, and then I figured out she was working for the Dyad Institute and it immediately got complicated."

This is, like, one-third of the way through the point she was trying to make, sorry Stephen. It's a little bit that she's getting stoned, but mostly that this entire story is unhinged and it's hard to tease out just the part she wants.