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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 .#.#.##.#.
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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. .#.#..#.#.
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#.#.#.##.# a  very long  time  since they  invented .#.#..#.#.
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#.#.#..#.. 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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