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The Natural Selection of Time - by Kyle Harrison

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I remember 2016 very clearly because it's the year I first became a Dad. My son was born in November 2016. Something else pretty big happened that month that made a lot of people very angry. Donald Trump won the 2016 election. I remembered thinking people would always have such a negative view of 2016 and that felt strange to think about for my son's birth year. John Oliver even did an entire segment to end his season of Last Week Tonight in 2016

I remember 2016 very clearly because it's the year I first became a Dad. My son was born in November 2016. Something else pretty big happened that month that made a lot of people very angry. Donald Trump won the 2016 election. I remembered thinking people would always have such a negative view of 2016 and that felt strange to think about for my son's birth year. John Oliver even did an entire segment to end his season of Last Week Tonight in 2016 called "F**k 2016." He burned the year in effigy. I've always had that expectation of "negative vibes" for 2016 in the back of my mind. Fast…

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