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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:             ..........
.........:                                          :.........
........:= 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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