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E31. "Grandma Ruth’s UP Truck Stop" by Viggy Hampton
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E31. "Grandma Ruth’s UP Truck Stop" by Viggy Hampton

This audiobook features "Grandma Ruth’s UP Truck Stop” by Viggy Hampton. Published in the May 2021 issue of After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Magazine.

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STORY SUMMARY (Spoilers): Is a digital copy of a loved as socially valuable as the real person? Is there an advantage if being able to permanently lose the ones we love? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Rachel receives a letter while at University informing her that her Uncle Stewart has passed away. She returns to the small town for the funeral and talks with Grandma Ruth, the local restaurant owner. Grandma Ruth sets Rachel up a date, but things don’t go quite as planned. Rachel confronts Grandma Ruth and finds out that she has slowly been replacing the town citizens with robot copies in order to keeping the dying town’s population from dwindling to zero. The sto…

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