"Been filling some of my wasted hours online, reading about the way things used to be. Funny to read all the hand-wringing news about how divorce used to pull families apart. Talk about the good old days! Hardly any of my friends have parents anymore, and IÆm just 16. Divorce—give me a break! By the time the first domes were finished most of our parents had been exposed to so many of the viral waves, and had breathed air so polluted and eaten food so mutated, that most were dead within five years—even if they were lucky enough to make it into a dome. Supposedly we are the Clean Generation, but who knows what kind of weirdnesses are crawling around in our DNA. Maybe weÆll be the first generation in history to actually wish we had parents. For now, back to the arcades."