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hit?”
    Matt swallowed uncomfortably and paused for a second to think.
    “Well it happened so fast, I saw that it was going to happen but it was too late.  I saw Butch chasing that cat just as you went up for the ball.  Then I saw Stacey’s car and it looked like he was about to swerve left to miss butch until he saw you and then he swerved right instead.  He hit the brakes really hard but it was still not enough to avoid the accident.” 
    Bobby could hear the quiver in Matt’s voice, he knew he was getting choked up so he did his best impression of Stacey.
    “Stay out the street Nancy!”  That brought a little grin across Matt’s freckled face.  He was a good-looking kid that took allot after his Mother, he had reddish brown hair and green eyes and looked ornery as could be but he really wasn’t, he was actually very polite and very quiet until he got to know you.  
    Matt came back with, “You won’t hear Stacey say that ever again!”   And they laughed about it again only to avoid being serious.  Bobby figured they could talk about it later, it was still too soon for Matt.  How gruesome it must have been seeing his best friend getting killed by a car. 
    Bobby felt like he had cheated death and now he knew how those other people felt that he saw on TV.  There were quite a few stories on the evening news about both children and adults that had gone through Restoration and he wondered what it must be like, now he knew first hand.  They went on visiting for about an hour.  After that Matt and his Mother said their goodbye’s and left Bobby to rest.
    Across town Dodge and his Father were just leaving LifeTech.  On the way out they saw a man in the waiting room with no legs and missing one hand, he also had a large scar on his right cheek.  Alan noticed that the man was not much younger than himself and he had a green shirt on with an Army Strong logo.  Alan stopped to speak with him.
    “Excuse me Sir,” he said, “Are you a veteran?” 
    “Yes I am, and I have the scars to prove it.” 
    They talked for a few minutes about their service to their country and they discovered they had been at some of the same bases for training but at different times. 
    The man explained to Alan and Dodge that he had received a voucher from the military for his service and his sacrifice for his country which allowed him an additional clone, one to use now to restore his body to full health, and another for later use to avoid dying of old age.  It brought tears to Alan’s eyes which he quickly choked back as he thanked the man for his service and wished him luck with the new lease on life that he was about to receive. 
    As Alan and his son walked to the car Alan turned to Dodge.
    “You know Son, I was wrong about this whole thing, it really is a gift from God, that Veteran deserves to receive it more than anyone I have ever met.”  Dodge agreed as they got into the car and headed to the hospital to see Bobby. 
    When they arrived, Bobby was just waking up from the nap he took after Matt and his Mother left.  The nurse would be arriving soon to bring his third, and hopefully, final plate of pink goop.  He figured the sooner the better.  In the morning he could have some real breakfast and go to therapy for a third session. 
    Dodge and Grandpa had arrived at the hospital just in time to meet up with Linsey and Sarah, Bobby’s older sister.  Sarah was almost eighteen and was the typical teenage girl with all the typical emotions. She was an absolute mess ever since she had heard about the accident. 
    Even though she and Bobby suffered from a near terminal case of sibling rivalry, they still loved each other deep down.  When she got the news that her little brother had been hit by a car and had life threatening injuries she passed out in the office of the gymnastics training camp where she was at for two weeks of intense training.  The on duty nurse had to treat her for shock and reassure her that