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Good grief; it never ends. . . .Flesh necrotizing bacteria; the 'plague'/Black Death. . .If it's not bears; it's alligators; or brown recluse spider - multiplying pythons; mice or just a mouse, in a cat's mouth. Then we have the 'tornado'; the hurricanes; the forest fires; the droughts and the floods. Many axims that speak to this; one: Everything changes; Nothing changes. Another we hear often; 'The more things change; the more they stay the same'. And so it is.

(Used to read as a child; about Christians being martyred for their Faith; fed to lions; tortured, beheaded; read of ancient physical atrocities; and imagined all belonged in an uncivilized, 'world past'; and that these things, so heinous; would never touch MY world. Same goes for the Holocaust. Could not possibly imagine 'otherwise'. . .

Hard to fathom, sometimes; how we grew up - or that any of us, 'last' till old. Clearly, many 'in time'; do not manage either. While many do, of course. . .

(Reading David McCullough's "Greater Journeys/Americans in Paris". This takes me there.)

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Things are more like they are now than they’ve ever been - Yogi Berra