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Every one of us has his own story. Without it we would be nothing. It is a story that has its origin a long, long time ago.
It is a story of joy, hurts, love, despair, satisfactions... A lot of turmoil. Lots of imagination. A work of art.
A story that was built around many people. It is enough to reflect upon our beginnings....In order that you came into the world, there was need for two persons: mum and dad. For them to have come about there was the need for four persons: the grandparents. Those grandparents needed eight persons: the great-grandparents. So from eight they have become sixteen, from sixteen they become thirty-two....If we suppose that there are twenty-five years between each generation, then over a span of five hundred years there were one million, forty-eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-six persons who came into the world and were all involved so that you would be born. What an effort !
1,048,576 persons......and you can still come across people who say that they feel worthless....!
Oh yes, your story and my story are the fruit of countless of other stories. And your story, each story in fact, has a great meaning in life. And this meaning stretches into eternity !
Fr Pius Sammut
Stejjer tal-Patri
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