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Jerome, however, is not quite perfect. What would a perfect person be doing, selling his identity? He had been an Olympic swimmer, possibly the best that had ever been, but his best was still insufficient for the gold. Burdened with a mere silver medal, Jerome had stepped in front of a car to ensure that he would never be second best again. Nevertheless, Jerome muses, he couldn't even do that right and ended up stuck in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. In order to maintain the lifestyle to which he was accustomed and to avenge himself upon the system that had so wronged him, Jerome determined to sell his identity to an inferior, an "in-valid." Vincent manages to pass as Jerome Morrow while working at Gattaca, though Jerome, in his hardened, cold superiority, tells him, "You'll never be me."
Vincent, it soon appears, is not the only one at Gattaca who is less than perfect, though he is the only one who has his position by stealth. A fellow employee, Irene Cassini--no doubt ...

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