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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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