Your very existence depended upon your parents getting together at exactly the right time. And their parents. And their parents. Go back 20 generations, and you have over a million direct ancestors* whose timing had to be just perfect to result in the eventual creation of you.
It's enough to really make a person feel special, until you realize that there are more than six billion other people alive right now who overcame those same odds.
* Unless you live in Kentucky or West Virginia, in which case the number could be as low as 100.
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