Editing Emily Gage (section)

==Project Goal==
Immortality, or extreme longevity, regardless it isn't perfect. It is based on making her less susceptible to certain things, at the cost of becoming more susceptible to other things.  She might grow to be hideous as she ages more, or develop dementia before the age of forty<ref>“It’s not accurate!” Candy raised her voice.  She looked more wild animal than person for an instant, in the flare of anger.  She appeared to try and visibly calm herself down.  “No.  They hired doctors to experiment on me, they extended my lifespan, made me more susceptible to some problems and resistant to others.  They’re trying to pass it off as something it isn’t.”

“Extended it how much?” Drake asked.  “Ten years?  Twenty-five?  Fifty?  A hundred?”

“I don’t know!” Candy shouted, wheeling on him.  “I won’t know until I get there!  If I get there.  The doctor said I might become ugly and said I might lose my mind to a kind of treatment-related dementia before I’m ''forty'' and then in the next breath he said I might live three-”

She stopped herself.

She remained there, panting for breath.

“Three?”  Drake asked.  “Unless you were misspeaking, and you were going to say three-ty years…”

Candy didn’t budge an inch or give an answer.

“Three hundred?” he asked.  “Three thousand?”

“Three hundred,” Candy said.  “At a minimum, the doctor thinks.  Probably longer.  Maybe three thousand.  Maybe thirty thousand.  I don’t know.  I think the doctor didn’t know either, he said one thing to my parents and another to me, I got the impression he didn’t care so much about what my parents thought, so long as I outlived them and they never saw if it was real immortality or not.  All I know-”[https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/bleeding-edge-8-11/]</ref>.           

===Expiration Date=== 
The minimum length given to Emily is around 300 years. But 3,000 and 30,000 are also viable options for her life span.  While she might live to those ages, it isn't known how else the experiment will continue to affect her.