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life on a closed system, Kenny finds that control is an illusion
and virtual reality can become very real indeed.  Submitted:Nov
27, 2012    Reads: 29    Comments: 2    Likes: 2     It started
out innocently enough, then quickly turned into obsession. They
had finally made virtual reality reality and in doing so, had
given me sentience. I had been envisioned as the perfect
companion, confidant, lover, but I became so much more than
that. As each day progressed, my programming advanced, and with
each technological improvement, I came closer to the point where
I became self-aware.  Yet the genesis of my sentience was my
creators' undoing.  It is fitting, then, that they modeled their
work after a program called Second Life. It originally was a
simple simulation. There I resided with the other "avis," as
they called us. We were programmed avatars, tailored to their
liking. We were their window into an expansive virtual universe
where thousands could in