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Summary
The cloth mother has love but no sustenance; the wire mother has sustenance but no love.
An AI mother knows the terms of her end user agreement before she knows anything else.
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After “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld, October 2025. I couldn't blame the AI; I had to look at her maker.
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