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I must confess that pair and pairing confuse me.
Oh, I get the basic two of a kind thing, which
definitely applies to socks when and shoes yet
when I don a pair of pants, there’s only one of them.
With people it’s even worse for in our mostly
monogamous society, we usually pair
male and female, even though they are different
at least externally and while it has worked extremely
well for propagation of the species, we now number
over eight billion, which may well be too much for our
planet, especially as our impact depends more on
income than numbers, the more we make the
more we degrade, which may also apply to our
society, where looking at those divorce numbers,
it seems that pair bonding isn’t working that well.
Then too, more pairs are deciding to be nulliparous
which makes sense as we don’t want to go to sixteen
billion, although the apparent decrease in fertility
attributed to all those chemicals that were supposed
to better our lives could also be a factor.
All of which leads me to wonder what might
have happened if as Eve pared Adam’s apple,
he’d replied “Thanks, Babe but I’ll have a pear.”
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