And there are clones. who definitely is..
Smithe...
And another E.
A.
Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Pollys Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not.
Which he is.
As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches.
Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human.
Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer.
A.
E.
And there are clones