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One of the few things her mother would talk with her about was how eugenics was the future of mankind and how her and her half-brother Dean were living proof of mankind’s triumph over nature. Vair eagerly studied genetics and the other sciences, believing that the studies would bring her closer to her mother. One day, Vair considered some discovery from a lab in Africa and, excited by the new data, found that she was challenging a popular eugenic theory. Vair was surprised when her mother didn’t approve and it was the first time she felt she had to choose between “logic versus politics.” Barely a teen, she began to lose herself, not being able to understand why people hated her. They would spend so many hours preaching ideas about life but never tried to understand her needs. They tried to raise her to be perfect, a goal she even shared; but, for all that her mind was fed, her heart was allowed to starve. She had no knowledge of how to identify pain or release it.

By her fifteenth birthday, the walls between Vair and her mother had grown higher; she moved out the same week with the help of her half-brother. Her studies and career began well and she tried to forget about family, even shutting Dean out. It made her feel better, at first.

In Vair’s senior year of college, her father contacted her; he’d moved back years before and now wanted to be a part of his daughter’s life again. For reasons she didn’t understand, she eagerly accepted the offer and began meeting with him in Dynamic Reality. She didn’t know what she was expecting, but she didn’t like what she found: her father had taken up drinking and the whim-driven bonding sessions seemed meaningless and left her feeling empty. She came to despise her father and tried to stop seeing him, but her father saw through her strong front and took advantage of her fragile emotional state. Vair kept visiting. Vair kept pretending.

One day, she told him that she was stepping away for five minutes. For all the strength she had, no knowledge or ignorance could hold it any longer. Though