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It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Passing
Population
Learned
Keep
Ends
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Passings
Keeping

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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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