Character Guide
- Salter: a man in his early sixties, he was married and had one son. His wife killed herself by throwing herself under a tube train. A few years later he had his son Bernard cloned.
- Bernard (B2): His son, thirty-five, first clone of his first son, made to replace original son.
- Bernard (B1): His son, forty. First son of Salter, Mother committed suicide when he was two years old.
- Michael Black: His son, thirty-five. Another clone of Salter’s first son. He is married with three children, a boy, a girl, and a small child ages twelve, eight, and eighteen months, and is a mathematics teacher.
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