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  • I’m not the person you asked, but I’m the same way. I do not hear sounds when I read which is one reason I don’t tend to be moved by poetry (love music and spoken word poetry though). I instead tend to have an extremely vivid imagining of the things described. I always feel that books are better than movies at least partially because the special effects in my mind cannot be touched by anything possible these days.


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    4 days ago

    This is pretty much the start of where I was going to go with my answer. In order to truly address the telomere factor of aging, you would have to address it in a large percentage of the cells of an individual. The sheer number of edits that would need be made is overwhelming.









  • I grew up somewhere that was 98.5% white. I’ve heard from one of the members of one of the two black families that the racism was wild. However there were also prejudicial divides based on extremely fine gradations of economic status (cause we were all “poor”), and on exact sect of Christianity.