Have we Plateaued?

     The book has not progressed any further since the last time that we have talked. I read 20 more pages and the plot does not develop any further. It seems that cassia is waiting for something. Perhaps to tell her family about the poem that she found in the face compact her grandfather gave her. Xander is oblivious, cassia and him barely talk which is unusual for a match. Ever since their matching banquet, it has been extremely awkward between the two. I understand, imagine having to marry your best guy- friend. It might be a bit uncomfortable!
     When people die in the society (at age 80) they are required to swab their cheeks for DNA and give the sample to  family member to give to the society after their death. They do this because every person believes that one day the scientists will be able to bring back these people using their DNA. Cassia's father has lost the sample and when Cassia returns from her free rec-time there are official and people in whit lab coats in her house. They are trying to recover the sample that may be in the house. cassia is worried that they might find her poem that she had in the compact on her bookshelf. The officials leave and find nothing. Cassia is relieved but ashamed that her father could have been so careless. In the society, people don't make mistakes and every once in a while when they do, the others almost "shun" the wrong-doers. If you ask me, it's a pretty judgmental place to grow up in! 


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