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creative writing

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how hard things are. . .

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I could be anything I wanted

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to play in the New York Philharmonic

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meeting my wife

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I am compelled to

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Milan Kundera, John Gardner, Le Nozze de Figaro, La Bestia nel Core

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shinning shoes in my father's barbershop

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When I retired

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My family

Relationships & Family > Family Life Has the destruction of the extended family contributed to climate change?

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This is an empirical question and in theory it should not be part of an opinion poll. That it has not been the subject of a controlled experiment does not leave us fee to opine at will however, for even without quantifiable data we can still do a thought experiment by imagining a Popperian falsifiable hypothesis, and see where it takes us. A good place to start is to examine just what the destruction of the extended family, as the initial proposition somewhat overdramatically puts it, actually means. If you go back far enough, extended families referred to blood relatives and their retinue...

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