John is a smart little boy in his seven years of age. But, he looks at his school fellows with different eyes, for when his classmates have just one father, he has two. Even worst, he has no mother. To have no
father is commonplace between his schoolfellows, but to be motherless makes him a kind of extraterrestrial. As a matter of fact he has no
mother at all, this is not a figure of speech. He had been born as a result of a cloning experiment of two homosexual men, married to each other for several years at the moment they had the idea of making a
clone of one of them. From his early
days he was used to see photos of his father’s marriage in the living room walls and over the chest. There, one may see the two in a passionate kiss at the looking of a priest in the background. Until he gets in contact with other boys at school, the wedding picture at home was the standard for a marriage in his mind, so when he sees the outside world he is shocked by the way things are there. Nonetheless, John is a selfassured boy, calm and intelligent, thus he reacts to the new situation in a surprising manner. No shame and no rejection of his
fathers unusual marriage is the way he tries to deal with all that big turn in his expectations about the outer environs. Eventhough this calm mood, John is bewildered in coming from a so unexpected origin. He had been gestated in a woman womb, but he knows nothing about that persona that is the closest of he would have as a mother. He dreams to have a mother like anyone and has the purpose of finding her at any cost. He insisted to his fathers that he must know his “mother”, but the answer is always that his mother is one of them and not the womb that incubated him. This woman is unknown even to them and had no contact with him after his birth, she did it for money, nothing more than money. So, there’s no chance that she can be found. As the years pass, John is growing more uncomfortable in the
family frame he is supposed to fit, along with this inadequacy his hormones are transforming him into a less calm guy. Maybe he is trying to show he is not gay and for this showing off all the macho he has inside him. In his early teens he is already a tall guy and now he is becoming aware from whom his genes came. Each day he is more and more like the biggest of his two fathers, strong muscles give him the respect of his pals and the stare of many girls. Nonetheless, he feels himself like an outsider, with no family and avoiding people to meddle into his intimate life. He hates the fact he is the result of a successful experiment and not the result of a traditional sexual intercourse. Why just him must be a clone? And, above all, a clone of a gay couple. Each day he lives, the more he notice the weird consequences of being a clone inside an awkward family. His future children will have three grandfathers and one grandmother, upsetting them, like him now. At some point, he decided he must leave his fathers and stop all the mess he is in, besides starting his new life as an ordinary man. He knew he must escape without warning. And so he did. In a distant place he start a new life and promises to himself to forget his two fathers for the rest of times. He is a new man now, his mood improved a lot and happiness became more than a mere word. When people ask about his
relatives he says they are dead because of a car accident and he came to that place to forget all the pain of missing his mother and father. Moreover, he has left no other relatives, for their parent’s family came from Australia and have had no more news about their ancestors for long. Back in his father’s home, the shock of missing his loved kid falls like a dark cloud over the happy days they enjoyed together, despite the crescent inadequacy of John to the world he was born on. The despair took place and one could see, as the days went by, that the depression is overwhelming. Mainly to the one that has given the cells to clone John. He became not just depressed, he is now really sick and there is a suspicion leukaemia is the source of his physical degeneration. Suspicion confirmed, he went on chemotherapy and improved for sometime, but the malignancy of his disease demands a transplant of bone marrow cells to save his life. Doctors asks him about relatives that could be donors of marrow to be transplanted. The answer makes them smile in disbelief when he said he has a clone, but doesnt know where he may be found. There were no news about any human clone in medical history, moreover this is a forbiden procedure in all countries. But under the insistence of the patient they agree in making public the situation, asking for John to respond to the quest for his father life.
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