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There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

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Steve Toltz
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
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