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The Other Immortality

Students like I once was, Copying studies like Dürer once made, Of a skull, once with a name. Just like our genes, little carbon marks drift little changes over time.

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Students like I once was,

Copying studies like Dürer once made,

Of a skull, once with a name.


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Just like our genes,

little carbon marks drift

little changes over time.