Hmm, a story about a clone … so there’s this relationship between a woman who donated her DNA when she was a broke kid and a scoundrel, and they break up, then the scoundrel gets on Future Tinder to find a new girlfriend, and it matches him with her clone.
“The app informed him that they were ninety-seven percent compatible.”
This story is a cop-out, a cock-tease, a rip-off, for not elaborating further about this miraculous compatibility app. Is it like the one in The Sims that balances personalities and interests? Does it work off of astrology, or palmistry, or do you have to fill out a questionnaire with at least 100 questions (in order to achieve a score of 97%)? Or is the compatibility estimate based on biology? Like the implied GSA happening toward the end of the story (don’t google that until you finish reading it, it’s a spoiler)? Does one have better than 97% compatibility with one’s clone? Will we someday just go around in echo chambers made up of our own clones?
The story never answers these questions. It just kind of flops around ideas like “my clone is me, but without the baggage!” And kind of implies that of course men would want to keep trading in their current wife for a younger model of the same person. Or maybe they’re just trying to hit 98% and beat their high score. I was only about 57% compatible with this story but that still exceeds the 42% for the alternate timelines one while not surpassing the 64% I’ll score for the super-abled one. People whose compatibility score is 30% or less with me may have different opinions but it’s not like I’m going to have to spend any time listening to them go on about it.
Test your compatibility score with this story here.
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