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I Allele is the younger of the Shan twins, a newsroom sensation on slow days.  Her older sister Jean is fifteen minutes so.  Their father, the one who decided to name them through his obsession with genetics, has managed to keep them stowed away in a Manhattan apartment.  Allele's mother lives in Massachusetts, which she says is more conducive to writing her book than the dreadfully noisy city.  To be perfectly honest, no one knows if she's planning to come back to the city ever.   As humans go, aside from her name, Allele is about as normal--for a girl who looks like a boy and acts like one too--as you can get.  Fate never had anything re