The cells are doing work in the parent's body, even though genetically they're different from the cells around them. It is possible that my cells are just like the chachkis that you love to collect, right? Like your little figurines that don't really do anything, they're just kind of there. I bought this huge piece of granite the other day in Beren, and I liked it all the way home, which was kind of silly. You can find granite on the ground.
Fetuses leave cells behind in their parents' bodies, where they braid themselves into tissues, and remain, for years. What are they doing in there?
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