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when the scale of it becomes
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too hard to absorb any other way?
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We use numbers.
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How many killed? How many maimed?
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How many missing?
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And when those numbers become too vast to comprehend,
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as they did two years ago,
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we had to turn it around.
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We began to count the living,
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those of us who survived
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to continue the saga of the human race.
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44,035.