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Dear Condor,
I don’t want you to get mad. Let me just say that right at the top, before
you read any further. Remember that, DON’T. GET. MAD. I’m glad that I’ve
been so busy, so I couldn’t respond to your letter to the base before my
private letter from you came through anyway. And I’m glad that you sent it.
What I’m not glad about is my current medical condition. I know that you
didn’t want details about my love life, but I think the backstory is
important, and I feel compelled to be honest about what’s going on with me,
because things aren’t great, and I don’t want you to be in the dark. It also
might have an impact on you, since there’s an apparent genetic component.
Bray and I are going through a tough time. I don’t blame him, but he blames
himself. Here’s the part you’re not gonna like. I contracted an STD. On its
own, the virus wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Treatment for it is
relatively simple and easy to synthesize these days. We’re living here with
a small population, so we kind of have these ways of coordinating
partnerships. Genetic diversity and health are more important, and harder to
come by, on this planet. Anyway, they treated the virus, and I’m free from
it now, but it appears that the inflammation awakened something in my body.
They’re calling it an epigenetic disease, which I was likely born with. You
were telling me about how you used to get sick as a child. Could you give me
more details about what your signs and symptoms were? Could you, maybe...ask
your father about it too? I don’t want to be pushy, but I think we need to
know the truth. If there’s something in our cells that we inherited from him
or mom, I think we have a right to that information. I should have asked
about this kind of stuff before. I have always lacked my father’s side’s
medical history. Mom said she filled out all the forms accordingly, and I
trusted that before I learned about you. Those family background records
were made when I was a child, and since I’m still using the same doctors as
I was before, they haven’t needed updating in that regard, because the past
doesn’t change! So I’ve never actually seen the records myself. She could
have lied, or she didn’t know enough about Pascal’s family, and just did her
best. I have lived my whole life in a controlled environment, which the
doctors believe insulated me from developing symptoms before. That would
make sense since you were just on Earth, where you would have been exposed
to all sorts of chemicals, even before the gases were released. Just tell me
anything you can, and anything Pascal says about it, if you can ask him
nicely without getting mad.
Don’t be mad,
Corinthia
PS: Don’t be mad.
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