Post-Contact Hilarity

“So, how is patient 377186 going?”
“Biological reconstruction has been going well, but it’s the memories and consciousness that’s the issue. The dementia turned their brain into Swiss cheese and we’re lucky to even get eleven percent reconstruction on them.”
“Damn. What about external records?”
“Patient’s family turns out to have had a lot of Super-8, VHS, and DVDs of them. That, and we got legal authorization to do a records trawl. Good news is that we got a lot of paper. Bad news is that the OCR is choking on some of it occasionally.”
“Got a reconstruction estimate so far?”
“Maybe sixty-five percent, seventy if we’re lucky.”
“Seventy is a lot better than eleven percent. If I can do anything to help, let me know.”

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