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Examples

  • Maybe this is something from my alternate's history.

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  • This alternate's bioengineering was thirty or forty years behind what they could do in the home timeline, but the viruses the home timeline was able to cook up thirty or forty years ago were plenty nasty.

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  • That was probably one reason why this alternate's technology had fallen behind the home timeline's.

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  • Even though Justin wasn't really from this alternate's Virginia, either, answering that was easy as pie.

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  • She could have taken that the wrong way — she might have thought he was sneering at this alternate's medicine.

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  • And people from Ohio really were foreigners in this alternate's Virginia.

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  • He didn't expect to see three somber men in this alternate's somber business suits.

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  • Some of what this alternate's Virginia used for junk food grossed him out.

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  • This alternate's North American coins and stamps, like the history of the continent, were much more complicated than they were in the home timeline.

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  • He had more confidence in the home timeline's immunity shots than in this alternate's gamma globulin, but he wasn't quite sure he ought to.

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