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.........-              ~~§  Life  §~~              -.........
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.....-~††§ ~ ~ § A Multitude Of  Definitions  § ~ ~ §††~-.....
....-~††§# ~    §   Does   Not   Help.   We   §   ~ #§††~-....
...-~††§#¶ §     Can     Say     "Life     Is     § ¶#§††~-...
..-~††§#¶# ~    §   What   We   Are,    And   §   ~ #¶#§††~-..
.-~††§#¶## ~  ~  §  What  Things  Like  Us  §  ~  ~ ##¶#§††~-.
..-~††§#¶# ~   §    Are",   But   Then   We   §   ~ #¶#§††~-..
...-~††§#¶ §    Must    Also    Define    What    § ¶#§††~-...
....-~††§# ~  §  "Things  Like  Us"  Actually  §  ~ #§††~-....
.....-~††§ ~ ~  §  Entails,  How  It Should  §  ~ ~ §††~-.....
......-~†† ~   §  Be   Measured,   Who   Or   §   ~ ††~-......
.......-~† §    What    Is    The     Arbiter,    § †~-.......
........-~ ~   §   And   So   Instead   There  §  ~ ~-........
.........- ~   ~   §   Is    This   Internationally -.........
.......... Sanctioned      List      §      ~     ~ ..........
.........- ~  ~ ~  ~  §  Of  Criteria §  ~  ~  ~  ~ -.........
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.......-~† - Life Must Produce Or Consume Milk      †~-.......
......-~†† - Life Must Have A Beginning And An End  ††~-......
.....-~††§ - Life Can Have Dreams And Can Interact  §††~-.....
....-~††§# - Life Can Steal                         #§††~-....
...-~††§#¶ - Life Can Be Cursed                     ¶#§††~-...
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