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It's genetics,  and it's  environment. It's meningitis, glandular fever and the novel coronavirus. It's bad habits catching up  with me.  It's poison dust and GM foods and leaded petrol.  It's stress-induced. It's karmic irony. It's my sense of foreshortened future  made manifest. It's a new way of self-harming  on a cellular level.  It's punishment from a god I don't believe in. It's the universe replying it  doesn't care. It's dumb ******* luck. There's a million different  (equally plausible, equally irrelevant)  reasons. None of them change anything.
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Aug 1, 2021
Aug 1, 2021 at 5:50 AM UTC
But Mostly It's The Last One
It's genetics,  and it's  environment. It's meningitis, glandular fever and the novel coronavirus. It's bad habits catching up  with me.  It's poison dust and GM foods and leaded petrol.  It's stress-induced. It's karmic irony. It's my sense of foreshortened future  made manifest. It's a new way of self-harming  on a cellular level.  It's punishment from a god I don't believe in. It's the universe replying it  doesn't care. It's dumb ******* luck. There's a million different  (equally plausible, equally irrelevant)  reasons. None of them change anything.
nico-reznick
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Aug 1, 2021
Aug 1, 2021 at 5:50 AM UTC
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