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"We didn't lose who we were," Jara replied, appearing as a soft glow beside them. "We just stopped being parts and started being the whole."

Kaelen stood up. The old Atlantic was beautiful, but it was a graveyard of a slower, louder time. They closed the digital fragment of p362. The future wasn't a falling plane; it was the quiet, endless flight that came after. A conversation about Life - Coalescent - LiveJournal "We didn't lose who we were," Jara replied,

"I was just thinking about the Old World," Kaelen sent back, the thought-pulse tinged with a melancholy Jara wouldn't quite understand. "About when they were afraid of losing who they were." They closed the digital fragment of p362

The reference to appears in various literary and technical contexts, most notably within Stephen Baxter’s science fiction novel Coalescent , where it touches on the evolution of humanity and the blurring lines of sexual identity. "About when they were afraid of losing who they were

Kaelen ran a hand through their hair, which felt more like fine optic fibers than protein. For Kaelen, the ancient worries about "men" and "women" felt like worrying about which side of a coin was up when the coin had long since melted into a single sphere.