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...^-:$$&#           the sick shit about            #&$$:-^...
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......^-:$              $ our world $               $:-^......
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.....^-:$$ is that it's pretty  young as worlds go, $$:-^.....
....^-:$$& there must  have  been  countless worlds &$$:-^....
...^-:$$&# here  before  ours,  on  this earth, and #&$$:-^...
..^-:$$&##             what about this:             ##&$$:-^..
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..^-:$$&## if i  am a  cat,  twenty years  of  age, ##&$$:-^..
...^-:$$&# i've lived  almost  two percent  of  the #&$$:-^...
....^-:$$&            time since zero bce           &$$:-^....
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......^-:$ things are recent. humanity  is  recent. $:-^......
.......^-: it  was not, geologically speaking, such :-^.......
......^-:$ a  very  long time  since  they invented $:-^......
.....^-:$$                 the wheel                $$:-^.....
....^-:$$&                    and                   &$$:-^....
...^-:$$&# i  like  the wheel just  as much as  the #&$$:-^...
..^-:$$&## next person  but  what about the  earth? ##&$$:-^..
.^-:$$&### the  original  marble.  the   loose  orb ###&$$:-^.
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