After a while of watching my phisically and mentally perfected friends frolicking with the variety of new lifeforms; I decided to waunder around the place.
I found a new and entrancingly beautiful forest. Doug, the new orator for the blossoming country, told me, that someone dropped an armful of twigs, branches, and small trees on the golden muddy ground. A forest grew instantly.
Well, another Doug, who traveled though time, said that the trees took 40 years to grow. Someone manipulated time, so that it would seem like the trees grew suddenly.
I started to forget my former life. I just knew my name, "Stephanie".
As I walked through this austoundingly joyous, yet peaceful environment, with unusual animals, and human-like objects, I met another person.
"Oh hello. I'm Brooklyn Robarts," he exclaimed.
"Stephanie," I responded.
"Stephanie what?"
"I can't remember. This strange place is so intoxicating. Someone said that the river is supposed to be a cure for everything," I said. I was getting drowsy.
"Well, sometimes you can get too much of a good thing. Let's get out of the forest," Brooklyn announced.
I didn't know why the atmosphere didn't bother him. Then, I noticed some tiny dust-sized lifeforms were coming out of me.
A strange noise came from these beings. As they got further from me, they got bigger. After a while, they said in unison, "Sorry. I think you inhaled me. It seems I'm multiplying."
Doug finally got to his full size as a bright red human shaped electron. His light faded. I saw that he was wearing the same clothes as my brother, Dave. How come he has a different name?
"Wait what?Why do you go by Doug?"
DOUG'S SPEECH
"Oh, there were many Treks through The Multidementional Space-Time Continuum. I mean, After the special sunray hit Conneticut, people were sent back and forth though time and space.
"It's like Fran Drescher said in a commercial, 'I broke all these space-time contiuum rules!' Well, I don't know how or why I was taken back and forth through past, present, and future.
This is not supposed to happen.
The first Dave, had a blast. When he dove into the water, all his 'old age' signs disappeared instantly. He opted to go back to his old life, to relive it from birth. The newly perfected Dave has the knowledge of that existence, so that as he grows older, he makes better choices. Every so aften, he comes here, for a swimming party in the Sun River. Each time, he gets in the water, Dave is miracuously cured of everything mental and phisical. His reports of his new life are markedly better than his previous life. All of the changes! His grades imrove each time. It takes less and less time to
He is duplicated all the time, as he gets into the Vitality Fountain of Youth. It's also a Wishing Well. That's another story.
Anyway, as I am the first duplicate, I know about all of his lives. It gets confusing. I had to assign a birthdate and number to each one. I was able to type all of the notes, for each Dave or Doug. There are so many different destinies. I call it, "Dave's Choose Your Own Adventure".
Oh wait. You just asked me about my name," he said in a strange way, as he slapped his forehead.
"That's all right. I tend to babble about this absurd place too," I said with a smile. I had to laugh. I got embarrassed, as people were glaring at me.
Wait, did that happen while I was watching my life story? Or what/when? I'm confused.
Doug heard the regular "Stephanie Narative".
"A lot of time travel and other weird stuff happened, as always in this Vitality."
I took a deep breath. Everyone looked at me.
"Okay. I have struggled with the names for a long time. I just saw the missing pieces of the puzzle on the screen. Remember, we're watching my autobiography. Here goes:
To help new moms, after birth, we give them fresh golden Sun Water. Micoscule doctors apon request. Glowing happy perfect mothers made.
Lots of times, folks go back to their original birthplaces, and birthdays. There weren't any golden waters, or supernatual beings.
My mother had sand and water in her mouth, when the midwife asked her, "What is the baby's name?"
Mom tried to say, "David". It was garbled. The other person wrote, "Doug".
I don't know why the midwife didn't help my mother. When Mom noticed that noone was going to help her, she jumped up, knocked over everything, and ran to a sink, to spit out the sand. Then, she started to ask over and over again, "Why did you give me unfiltered sandy water to drink? That isn't edible!"
By the time she stopped shouting, a bunch of dupicates of her appeared, one by one. Most of them were shouting about how they had mutiple voyages through time and space to relive their whole lives, plus this latest problem with the sandy water. The next 3 who turnd up were clueless as to where they were. They might have been instant copies, or they were brought to this scene from a different one.
I know this, as someone showed a video of my birth.
I saw something. There was an almost transparent tunnel that formed after the first duplicate appeared. If you step into a tunnel, it will take you to "the time and place of the origin of the tunnel. Every time you make a quantum leap, (time-machine like trip) you can get duplicated. Whether or not Mom was duplicated, she had all of the memories of the various lives. That's too much.
Well, Mom told me, that she lived her life, which included having children. Then, she was back to having just given birth to the original Dave. Then, ssomeone gave her that weird drink. There was just one of her at a time. She felt herself moving. When she looked around, she was back in the hospital again. She went through this countless times. Finally, someone went back in time to set up a series of cameras. This way, there are recordings of the caos.
Someone told my Mom's duplicates to say, "I don't want to be here at all!"
They each went back through the tunnel that brought them back and forth through time. Ultimately, my mother was the only one once again. She skipped over the alternate lives. She just picked up her normal life, as a grandmother." Doug finished his report.
"WAIT WHAT" I shouted.
"Mom is a grandmother?"
"Yes. Dave and his wife are parents. That's their story."
"Do they know about me?" I asked.
"Well, Dave knows you quite well. He sees you as 'Empress Stephanie' who didn't know she was a princess .... Although, you had redish-brown hair when you were little. There were so many of you, with the same origin story. There were some of you, who were of varing ages. The last time, each of you had a different name, as the story was changed for good. That was when an 11-year-old had to midwife for her mother. Also, the mother was duplicated a bunch of times. You thought that the extra pregnant women were your aunts. You also thought that all of your mini-me's were your sisters. No, you were coppies of eachother."
"Yikes!" Why don't I remember any of this?
As far as I remember, I"ve always had long, straight Sunny-golden Shimmering Shinining Soft velvety hair, like the enhanced river. Does my hair change color when I get coppied?" I had mixed emotions, as I responded to Doug.
"No. The the original strawberry-blonde child, whose hair turned reddish-brown as she got older, went home, after her first visit to Vitality. That's Dave's younger sister, Jessie. She's writing this nonscence, not YOU.
YOU ARE STEPHANIE. You are dictating this story, in your own weird way." Doug replied. He had more to say....