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And the reason is because in certain individuals, they can actually have genetic changes or mutations that are not passed down from the mother or from the father, but actually start brand new in them, mutations that are present in the egg or the sperm at the time of conception but have not been passed down generation through generation within the family.

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Thirty years have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed on my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.

And the very next time that they might hear anything about the people who had raised them might be a telegram saying, "Your father has passed away."

We passed a bunch of rules to regulate the financial industry in response to the recent collapse.

Now, on paper, she passed my "smoking ears" test: (Laughter) she's an activist from the Right, and I'm an activist from the Left.

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