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[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago

If your ancestry was a tree, what people think of when saying this is the tree getting uprooted, when it really is more akin to cutting off a two, perhaps three growing seasons old branch.

~~Which is to say that not even in this teeny tiny way do you matter.~~