Cloning you say? I've seen a bit of cloning myself in my time, although this is a much better done clone than what I saw. I suppose this may in fact be a clone, but whether or not they made it from scratch, or if they took a sample from the original... that is another question.

[He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Thinking of this as a bit of a lab project was much easier on the psyche, so he was glad to try to lead it in that direction.]

It's actually possible that they may have taken samples from our memories to create these clones. They may have attempted to find in our minds the ones we hold most dear, and then at a later date they shaped the clones in whatever way they thought they would need to.