“You are the product of an explosion. Billions and billions of years ago, a star succumbed to the inevitable natural forces pushing and pulling at it and violently disgorged its contents throughout space. A Supernova. Those atoms created this rock you live on, the water you drink, the air you breathe, and the you you you in. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. You are just one moment in the great recycling that is the cosmos. That explosion is you”

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