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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           ¶¶@††\\»~.
.~»»»\@@¶@                                          @¶@@\»»»~.
.~»\†@§¶@# 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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.~»\†@§¶@#                                          #@¶§@†\»~.
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.~»\†@§¶@#                                          #@¶§@†\»~.