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Submitted to Contest #186
0. Birth. Breath. I am. My mother cried. My father was not present. She always told me we didn’t need him. One and one makes two, which is a part of the Fibonacci sequence. The next part is two and one makes three, which we lost. The very beginning is zero and one makes one. Everyone likes to forget that part because zero is too hard to conceptualize. Maybe not logically, because even some birds understand zero logically, but emotionally it is still too hard for us to grasp. It is too hard to have to be alone. It is not easy to loo...
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