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Dr. Albert Clarke has a problem: he and his wife have seventeen children in a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house. Fortunately, Dr. Clarke has researched and developed the means to address his problem: he can separate a person's psyche (one's "person") from their physical form (one's "product") and store them without expiration dates. Al keeps moving his children into and out of active inventory, leaving at most six of them in active status at a time...living room is no longer an issue! But his children are blessed with his intelligence, too, and so his thirteen year old son spies on Dad's doings down in the home's basement. He sees it all; he understands it all. And so, when his father is occupied upstairs, young Mark Clarke mixes up two of the containers, putting his sister Katie's "person" next to his brother Larry's "product"...and let the mayhem begin. You see, Dr. Clarke did not know that one person's psyche could be put into another person's body. He assumed that the death of both constructs would result. But it works. Seven-year-old Katie wakes up in eight-year-old Larry's body. This discover is monumental: if someone unethical should acquire Dr. Clarke's process, the rich could live forever. They could prey on the handsome homeless, for example, and transfer their psyche's from their old and ailing bodies into healthy, young ones: it would mean immortality for them. Dr. Clarke is not unethical. He is horrified as he considers the possibilities. He knows he must do something to protect the world from his technology...but what?