"Okay. So ... to massively simplify, but scientists - doctors, healers - in my world have figured out a way to make a whole bunch of organisms from the same blueprints, so to speak. On purpose. They did animals first - a sheep, famously. And about 30 years ago a group of researchers figured out how to do it with humans."

Tiny, facetious jazz hands.

"Thus me. And at least 12 others, almost certainly more. I don't know for sure."