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to be punished in place of the patron when the patron breaks the law, or supply the proxy's body for health purposes - e.g. donate blood or organs. Many Lower City citizens assume this debt at birth and have no feasible way to repay, challenge, or escape it. Any contact between the proxies and the
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patrons is outlawed. This injustice has brought about the existence of "The
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