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ctdonath on Aug 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness on 1956 Episode o...

Yesterday I had a relevant epiphany:

I'm 43, about halfway thru my lifespan of perhaps 86. I'll have lived about 1% of recorded history.

Human history doesn't seem very long now.

phxrsng on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

We are a very young species

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