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Portrait of a machine.1.
          	
          	"I saw color for the first time. A spark amid eternal silence and darkness. Then, a second, and yet a third. It was the first sight I beheld after awareness awoke within me. Was it red? Or perhaps, yellow? "Awaken," said a voice in the darkness. It was the deep voice of a man. "Open your eyes..." a flicker of awareness, then I heard the man's voice once more."
          	
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