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The Affinities: What If Your Ideal Family Turned You Into A Jerk?

October 25, 2016 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

The Affinities Robert Charles Wilson Sunburst Finalist 2016 The Affinities has an intriguing core idea: what if we could take an elaborate personality test that then connected us to our ideal ‘made family’?  Think of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, writ large, but with more sex and pot-smoking…so like college, maybe…? Yeah, I liked this idea…

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