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Guaranteed Human.

It's late April 24.

The Center for Reproductive Health is closed.

The clinic itself is dark.

The door is locked.

Dr. Vasquez is no longer allowed to handle patient records or anything else involving the clinic.

The state has taken over CRH, and a receiver, a third party appointed by the courts,

takes responsibility for what's left behind.

The first priority is the cryogenic tanks.

The clinic has five of them, filled with frozen embryos, eggs, and

sperm, what the fertility industry refers to as genetic material. The receiver hires an

embryologist to come to the shuttered CRH several times a week, just to monitor the tanks and make

sure there's enough liquid nitrogen in them.

That is, until the receiver can find another clinic willing to take in all of this genetic material.

But this isn't a simple task.

Digging into the files, the receiver discovers how truly disorganized they are.

The Center for Reproductive Health kept three separate inventory systems,

one on paper and two electronic,

and none of them match up perfectly.

Meanwhile, patients are desperately waiting for news.

In May, they get a letter from the receiver, reassuring them that the tanks are being cared for.

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