LOUISE BROWN
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Mrs Brown was a genetic engineer. Pushed by maternal
ambition, she, from the earliest stage of her pregnancy,
applied her expertise on her own daughter.
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Consequent to this attention, her daughter was born
at the age of seven during the winter solstice, which
happened to be particularly cold that year. She called
her Louise.
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Louise never knew her father
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Mr Brown was a lightning conductor representative.
He thought he’d do well in London.
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He was wrong.
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He left during the third year of Mrs Brown’s pregnancy
and took residency in a country “at the measure of his
ambition”. He was never heard from again.
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Mrs Brown had always told her daughter that her
father was professional cyclist who had gone to cycle
around the world and that maybe he will come back ;
one day.
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Louise has always been dubious of this, even if since
then she became a fervent follower of cycling events.
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During her childhood, Louise spent most of her time
withdrawn from any contact, devoting her time to restrained
and specified activities.
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When it was raining, and it was often because it was
Great Britain, Louise use to take endless baths and
imagined all London disappeared under the water.
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Her social interactions were restricted to the monthly
meeting of the her mother’s Genetic Engineers Club
(GEC), where she was the central point of attention.
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The circumstances of Louise’s birth and the specificity
of her social community, gave her a precocious development
as well as an impenetrable self-confidence.
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Louise spent the next decade focusing on her passion
for botanics, though her mother secretly tried to nourish
her interest in astrophysics.
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Louise completed her PhD in Biology and Environmental
Science at the University of Sussex in collaboration
with Kew Gardens. Her diploma was composed of
the creation of two original specimens: the Kalhocactaceae
and the Sarracenia Calypso, new species of
hypoallergenic plants.
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During a study on fossil plants, she discovered the
DNA of the Cryptoclidus. She created a specimen,
Mary, that she keeps in a fish tank.
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Three years later, the family cat ate the miniaturized
dinosaurs toy given in the packet of biscuits and died.
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Following this tragic incident, she decided that her
research on dinosaurs should never be published and
destroyed them.
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As the fishtank grew smaller, Louise chose to release
Mary in a remote Lake in Scotland. She would always
be missed.
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From that moment on, Louise went regularly visit the
sea otter of the London Zoo. During one of her visits,
she decided to put an end to her blues and to take up
swimming.
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The day before her twenty-first birthday, Louise placed
fourth at the regional 400m swimming championship.
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Exactly one year later Louise left earth.
Louise was offered a place on Dorrado: an orbital selfsufficient
biosphere. She left at ten in the morning from
Kennedy space center, her mother was present at the
launch, overcome with joy.
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