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One day, before there were days...
everything, before there was anything -
you, me, the sun...
and all the stars we can and cannot see -
were together in a size smaller than this point of light.
And then, by an inexplicable somehow...
it became.
Ten million years later, gravity tried to pull it back...
creating galaxies - billions...
stars - trillions...
and a solitary Earth made of one continent.
For the next 400 million years, volcanic eruptions...
spewed toxic gas into an atmosphere devoid of oxygen.
Deadly radiation heated acidic oceans.
Comets and asteroids rained with a force greater...
than all the nuclear arsenals of the 20th century.
And yet, by an inexplicable somehow...
life became -
the first cell...
every tree in the Amazon, everything.
Everyone that is alive or has ever lived...
is descended from the same ancestral form of life -
you, me, friends, enemies...
and all the life we can...
and are yet to see.