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When I was kid, I was irrationally terrified of sinkholes. Well, the fear wasn’t irrational — Who wouldn’t afraid of a giant hole under the ground, ready to collapse any moment and bring everything on top of it down? — So maybe the better description would be “disproportionately terrified.” Sinkholes are, after all, far less common than car accidents, earthquakes, thunderstorms… but in the landsca

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“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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