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And then we will weigh them, one against another in the pieces of time that create eternity, each soul spanning miles into the sky. And we will wonder if our scales weighed them correctly, life against life, or if we somehow missed something, if we tricked ourselves into believing that we were larger, more beautiful. If the sheen of our skin and the cleanliness of our bodies and the plump feelings we use to boost ourselves up, a little higher, a little farther, don't mean what we thought they meant all along.