Legacy

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Rather than presume to know what a human life is worth, perhaps we should simply focus on whether we're paying people enough to maintain a life of at least basic dignity and comfort. 
Photo by Mathew MacQuarrie on Unsplash

With the jaws of mortality snapping at my heels I find myself turning where so many like me have turned before. To leave behind something, anything, that tells the world I existed, that I once walked these paths, that I once dreamed the same as anyone who comes after me, the same as anyone who went before me. 

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