Thank you for coming. I really appreciate you taking the time to see me again.

Of course, I will admit I was surprised to hear from you directly.

I grab you a coffee, two sugars, no cream.

I'm not sure if that's how you still take it.

Oh, I've been cutting sugar, but I appreciate the gesture.

So, uh So how are things at the database?

Things are, as usual, going swimmingly.

We're helping millions of Americans achieve a happy and healthy future with their soulmate.

How are you?

How's the practice?

I think it suits me better than a research setting.

I found it very fulfilling working with patients one-on-one.

Huh, helping individuals to reject the database must be a particularly fulfilling project for you.

That's not how I would describe my work.

Yes, many of my clients want to talk about their soul mates, but who wouldn't?

It's a life-defining decision made by a mysterious government body that nobody understands.

And so you provide counsel to encourage your clients to reject the thing that they don't understand?

Well, no, not to reject it. I guess more like, find a way to break it down.

Break it down.

No, not like that. I just, I mean to process their feelings about the database and their files and the matching and ultimately their soulmate.

I have plenty of clients who have entered into happy

fulfilling relationships with their soulmates marriages, babies, the whole

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