‘‘Twas a trillion to one

Your parents would meet.

and a billion to one,

chance they’d conceive.

A million to one

in this timeline

hundred thousand to one

you’d actually survive.

There was a thousand to one

chance you’d excel

and a hundred to one chance

youd just do well.

a ten to one chance

youd not make it at all

and just one chance

that you could

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Humbly yours,

j