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findings.
    He grew depressed and stopped doing experiments of any kind. Then Mendel died, and the abbot who ran the monastery burned all of Mendel’s old notes and unpublished essays on heredity.
    It was another fifty years before other scientists really rediscoveredMendel’s original paper. This time, however, they liked what they saw. Using Mendel’s original conclusions and evidence on genetics, scientists quickly moved from peas to frogs. From frogs to mammals. They soon figured out how to make detailed maps of DNA. To isolate certain genes and decipher how they worked. How to modify them.
    They eventually cloned a whole sheep from a single strand of DNA. Took one single cell from a “parent” sheep and made a perfect copy. Identical. Two of the exact same sheep.
    They named the copy Dolly. Dolly became famous. It was 1996.
    Now it was game on. The next five years was an explosion of clones.
    Japan constructed Noto the Cow. Thousands of Notos. The Italians cooked up Prometea the Horse. Iran made Hanna the Goat. South Korea made Snuppy the Dog and Snuwolf the Wolf. The Scots made pigs; the French, rabbits. Both China and India made water buffalo clones; Spain and Turkey, bulls. Dubai crafted the exact same camel a hundred and four times.
    America, of course, did it better than all of them combined. More labs, more commercial interest, gobs more money. Cloning and biogenetic research was added to every pharmaceutical company in the nation. Even university kids were making clones. Did you know that there are more colleges in New Jersey alone than in all of Germany? Everything progressed in a hurry.
    Cumulina the Mouse. Ralph the Rat.
    Mira the Goat. Noah the Ox. Gem the Mule.
    Dewey the Deer. Libby the Ferret. Ditteaux the African Wildcat.
    CC the Cat. Tetra the Monkey.
    Jeff the Serial Killer.
    Beans to frogs to rats to primates. Just five years.
    Insert chants of “USA, USA . . .” right here.
    Cloning humans, by the way, is still completely legal in America.
    Everyone just assumes it’s not.
    A couple of states have banned it. Most haven’t. And Washington, DC, keeps out of the way. The Human Cloning Prohibition Acts of 2003 and 2007 were both voted down by Congress. The 2009 version of the bill has been buried/forgotten/hidden in various subcommittees for forever.
    Our scientists can pretty much do whatever they want as long as they don’t openly use federal dollars. Cloning is currently legal in twenty other countries. See above.
    We’re everywhere.



CHAPTER FIVE
    C astillo showed me a list. A terrible list.
    The names of all the students and Massey employees who’d been killed the night before.
    Twelve people.
    Now just little black lines stacked up on top of one another like dirty dishes.
    Twelve .
    Dead. Murdered in cold blood.
    Nine were kids. I knew some of them. And I told Castillo so.
    My dad’s name was not on this list.
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    Later, I admit, I would wish it had been.
    •  •  •
    They didn’t know where my dad was.
    Me either, I said.
    Castillo told me they did know my dad had been at Massey the night of the murders—from the security system. And that it looked like . . .
    That it looked like my father probably, maybe, likely, had something to do with it.
    “It” being the murders.
    I wish I’d found that possibility more surprising.
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    Castillo then showed me another list.
    This next list was about to become my whole world.
    Albert Young. Jeffrey Williford. Henry Roberts. Dennis Uliase. Ted Thompson. David Spanelli.
    These were the six students who were missing. Six who’d been at the school that night that no one could find now. They probably, Castillo explained, had something to do with the murders. That’s all he’d say at this point.
    These were not their real names. These were their adopted names.
    Their real names (their ORIGINAL names) were:
    Albert Fish. Jeffrey Dahmer. Henry Lee Lucas.Dennis Rader. Ted Bundy. David Berkowitz.
    How many