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Choices of Past Forebears

Random chain of events preceded occurrence re: guarding existence of me interminable fits and starts concerning self destruction inherent within one measly self important species. Yours truly synonymous with any chance reader (of course inclusive those untold past multitudes, who trod upon this oblate spheroid preceding one anonymous groveling, middling sniveling modest *****sapien) pursuant upon unknown destination giving contemplative, introspective, speculative... pause every now and again, asper bajillion prior bipedal hominids, whose individual deliberate or random natural biological impulses wrought sons and/or daughters, whose subsequent call, sans their wild procreative proclivities unwittingly begat the unique chromosomal combinations inscribed genes imbuing each of us with transient occupancy to revel, relish, reckon very finite number of orbitz around nearest star, how longevity (till mortality – leisurely and/or vocationally) expended, yet anatomically, biochemically, physiologically... linkedin with avast gamut incorporating unknowable determinants sole fully cobbling wide, whirled webbing, (albeit skein microscopic) comprising resultant Deoxyribonucleic amalgamations, combinations, emulations...throughout untold generations eventually giving (swell pregnant) rise to healthy progeny predicated on an uneventful tragic mishap in utero preceding parturition, which miraculous seminal fertilization regarding series of fortunate events delineating quintessentially strapping robust tot destined (years later) to continue human species, thus I ponder tremendous steep odds (analogous to drawing winning lottery ticket), when reproductive processes diploid propagating one after another ongoing generation, yet in retrospect every cellular T-Mobile chance coupling attendant on haphazard spontaneous buzzfeeding circumstances promulgating prolific primal precedents begetting each individual necessitating tenuous fluke (worm hungers) engaging, engendering, engineering... (similar to science experiment) endowing penultimate on the fly fusion between two haploid cells impossible to explain convincingly, (asper in my mind) the notion predestination intervenes likened to invisible hand.

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