When someone asks a hypothetical such as, "What do you think it'd be like if you were born 100 years ago?" my mind immediately goes in a weird direction. How would that even work? I wonder. Presumably, you have the same parents, or you could be a very different person and then there'd be no point to the prompt. And presumably, you have the same grandparents or else your parents (and you) could be very different people. And presumably, you have the same great-grandparents . . . So which ancestors do you delete, and how do you know it won't affect your development as a human being? Do you even get to make that decision? W here do those 100 years come from? "It'd suck to not have modern medicine," I manage. I know it's not obvious, but I promise, I'm technically writing this blog post in response to a class prompt. Specifically, this one: Do you wish you could return to a moment in your past? I gave some proper answers, of course. But I
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