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Chapter 12: STOP THE MUSIC!

• Rudy suspects the Algonkian clones will be distracted by the female clones of the girls’ camp hosting the dance. Maybe he’s met Rob and Dennis (NO COINS, PLEASE!).
• Rudy can dance—but let’s be honest, is anyone surprised?!? Favorite part is when he takes on new Silver Lake dance partners as “the original eight begin to drop out, exhausted.” 
• When Rudy answers that he learned to dance from “a mixmaster,” I’ve always wondered if he’s referring to a disc jockey or the whirling food processor. I could accept either truth.
• “Say, Mike, I’m planning to invent a new dance. It’s called The Exit. Are you with me?”
• Pierre really is the smartest of the clones. Sitting outside the exit door! So simple. And his comment about recording the dance chaos for a best-selling book… I’m beginning to wonder if “Gordon” is just the pen name of the brilliant author Pierre de Resistance.
• And I can almost hear “Chip’s half-demented voice” when he discovers Rudy has disappeared. 

@Jade: “His Cloneschip.” Ha! … Good call on Mike and his motivations, which clearly are more “stick by Rudy” and less “actually escape.” … The boys/girls dance was a h-u-g-e part of camps back in the day. Is that not still happening? … And yes! The counselors laughing together about their ridiculous evening is the perfect way to end the chapter. 
@GRK: Love the backstory on the bunk prank.