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How Do You Live Life?

They thought him odd, the way we would sit and think. “The world is full of answers!” He’d cry “it’s up to us to ask the right questions.

And since no one would think with him, he created a little robot to help. But, the robot thought it knew all of the questions, and by doing so, took the thinking out of it.

The man thought until the night came, and the streets crumbled, and all he knew was gone. “Alas!” He called finally. “I and the robot have been wrong! The question for the answers the world holds is ‘How do you live life?’”

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