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During my last travels around the world, upon reencountering an image already familiar to my memories, a beautiful and unexpected insight allowed me to view from a new perspective the questions that, born of the awareness of my utter insignificance among Earth’s more than 8 billion inhabitants, keep popping like popcorn kernels inside my restless
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