Chapter 11- Matt is walking around and sees Tom's place card next to his and Maria's at the baby table, so he switches them. Maria gets upset and changes them back. Matt says it is his party also and she must sit with him. She is upset the whole time. El Patron begins to open his gifts and he has a mountain of gifts around him. Matt opens his from Celia and Tam Lin, but Maria won't give hers to him. He demands she bring it and a gift. She reluctantly does so. El Patron leaves and Matt goes to bed.
Chapter 12- The next morning, Felicia comes to visit Matt. She tells him to go meet Maria at the hospital. He goes and Maria thinks that he invited her there. Tom comes out. Matt realizes that Tom told Maria to come and Felicia told Matt to come saying the other invited them there. They hear something screaming in the back. Maria thinks it's a cat and must go save it. When they go back, they see it is a person; a boy. It was screaming and kicking and trying to get loose. Tom explains it's a clone. It is Mr. MacGregor's clone. Maria can't look at the clone or even think about it. Matt tries to explain that he isn't like this clone, but she won't listen to him. Both of them leave and soon after, he follows.
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Interesting Quotation: "Matt was beside himself with frustration. "You wanted to come down here to rescue a cat. Well, look at this! It needs rescuing!" "No, no, no," whimpered Maria. She was in a state of utter panic. "Take me away!" she wailed." Maria, like all the others, would save anything but a clone. She doesn't mind Matt most of the time, but she couldn't handle this clone. No one wants to help a clone. Everyone says that clones eventually go crazy. Why spend time with them if they will eventually go crazy?
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