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can until his imminent death, much to the disapproval of his ex-wife, Amanda, who watches him have an ill-advised affair with a younger woman, Daphne. Kasparian's best friend, his boss, and the museum's curator are all disapproving as well, unsure of why he is acting so strangely. Jeremiah, Kasparian's best friend, criticizes the curator for eating during a moment of grief, but
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When his plan fails after an airport official catches him with human bones in his luggage, he steals his own cloned brain and buries it, along with the bones of his parents, in a makeshift grave after posing them humorously. After he begins struggling with memory lapses due to his condition, he wakes
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A recently divorced paleontologist, Benjamin
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