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There are other life cycles, including yours and mine. We begin. We  develop, are born, develop some more. We come into reproductive age, we  reproduce or do not reproduce. We grow old.
In the end we will, each and every one of us, disperse our molecules  to other uses. This is annoying. After all, we are individuals—unique,  brilliant, sensitive, irreplaceable.

Priscilla Long muses on sex, mitosis, and life cycles. Read.
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There are other life cycles, including yours and mine. We begin. We develop, are born, develop some more. We come into reproductive age, we reproduce or do not reproduce. We grow old.

In the end we will, each and every one of us, disperse our molecules to other uses. This is annoying. After all, we are individuals—unique, brilliant, sensitive, irreplaceable.

Priscilla Long muses on sex, mitosis, and life cycles. Read.

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The American Scholar is the venerable and lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.

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