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Be patient, my dear... I know that my children you pretty battered, what can you do, by the time of maturity, they, like all humanoid underdeveloped creatures have time to make a lot of mistakes, destroy, break, spoil... You get angry at them, sometimes you punish them, and then you forgive them anyway... you be patient, my dear, not long left, hold out a little more... my dear Earth...

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