Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold

“It’s a brute-force approach,” Miles said apologetically. “And not, alas, quite as simple as a data match.”
“That,” murmured Gibbs, “is why enlisted men were invented.”

Miles had heard weird tales of strange relationships between people and their clones. But then, anyone who deliberately went out and had a clone made must be kinky to start with. Far more interesting to have a child, preferably with a woman who was smarter, faster, and better-looking than oneself; then there was at least a chance for a bit of evolution in the clan.

Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn’t sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.