She had to make friends with the country children, and perhaps explain some things to the town children who had been her friends the year before, but if she had any difficulty with that I never heard about it.

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For more than a hundred years, some scientists have believed the first living things evolved elsewhere, perhaps on Mars, and then stowed away on rocks that made their way here.

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In fact, the current histrionics, in a way, seem a bit akin to Y2K, when we were warned for months about jets falling out of the sky and uncooperative ATMs. Yet the worst things that happened come January 1, 2000, were perhaps some stubborn hangovers.

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Perhaps in some future generation, when the fear of losing everything or the belief that bad things happen for no reason at all have all been relegated to the scrap heap of history, abundance will be the natural experience on Earth as people embrace their own perception that good fortune flows easily when trust rather than fear is the unwavering belief.

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