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How Old Is a Cell?

In Japan, what they call old is the form. Go to Athens and you're standing in the very temple that Pericles stood in. It's the same place exactly. Same materials. And I was thinking that this thing you're doing is sort of a little bit like that. But my more basic, it's like, why does part of me get to reborn and the other parts of me don't? Because if all of you were being reborn, you would just crumple into dust.

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