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How the World Began
If you look down my street, you'll see all the trees in a line, and the people dotting the sidewalk, heads ducked like the low hanging clouds. Then you cross the street and you stare at the warning read hand flashing to stay back, and the snow turning to slush on the curb. Then you stare at the restaurants under the tall apartments, like the kind you live in, and as you walk to your door you fumble for your keys in your deep winter coat pocket. Once let in you trudge up the 3 flights of stairs to your apartment, and slip your shoes off, and walk into the empty house. Then you sit on your bed and stare at your hands, and as you look up, you realize, that you are nothing more than a person sitting on a bed in a neighborhood that you love, while your parents are away and you think that what if your house never existed? Where would you live? That gets you thinking about if your parents had never met. You would never have been born, and you wouldn't go to the school you go to or had made friends you made. All this info makes your head hurt so you lie down on your bed and imagine how the world started. With dinosaurs and trees and chimps and then people and shacks and wood and wars and more wars and food and famines and water and drought and land and countries and boundaries and states and continents, and skyscrapers and roller-coaster, and Cony Island and Hersey Park and kids and popcorn and movies and theaters and school and everyday life.
If the world had never started, you wouldn't be reading this.
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