By Joel Hess –

Happy birthday

Well, by happy I mean that I hope certain biological mechanisms within you produce an emotion with all the smells and bells so that your smile and pleasant disposition might attract a mate so you may have progeny.

On this day, ___ years ago, you were fortunate to have survived your mother’s birth canal.  Perhaps you have a quality about you that will enable you to outlive your weaker siblings and improve our gene pool.  Or maybe not.  Doesn’t matter really.  You will never know. Be content that at best you are a fortunate accident.

Love (that is, my emotion that my brain produces to keep me from killing myself)

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