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In a play about people with this trait, Bernard claims that the play’s title concept “would be a shock.” Sam Shepard starred in the US premiere of that play, Caryl Churchill’s A Number, in which all three of Salter’s sons have this trait. In a novel, the Morningdale scandal turns public opinion against people with this trait. The (15[1])Cottages is a housing complex for people with this trait, including a woman writing an essay about (*) Victorian fiction. A school for people with this trait requires them to create works of art that are confiscated by Madame. (10[1])People without this trait are housed on a “Savage Reservation” in Brave New World, and the Bokanovsky process creates people with it. For 10 points, name this trait of the artificial organ donors who attend the boarding school Hailsham in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. ■END■

ANSWER: cloned people [or clones; accept lab-grown or artificial before read; accept identical twins or twins; prompt on descriptions of people used for organ harvesting with “By what process were they created?”]
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