Being A Thing
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Last published Wed, Jun 27, 2012
Chloe Cabanara is the average American teen...NOT! She's been geneticaly enginered to look the best and be the best thing ever created by man, sort of. She was once a regular human now she's A Thing. A Thing is a group for the genetically enginered.
Have you ever felt the urge to just be someone else, and be able to do something. Well i had the urge and i wanted desperatly to change. and that did not work out so well. im a shapeshifter. Cool right? Well here's my story.
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