Dec. 5, 2025

The Dark DNA: What Scientists Can’t Explain

The Dark DNA: What Scientists Can’t Explain

In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, host Bennett Tanton explores the concept of junk DNA, revealing its potential significance beyond mere genetic coding. He discusses how non-coding DNA may play crucial roles in gene regulation and expression, and how trauma can leave lasting marks on our genome, influencing future generations. The conversation also delves into the implications of CRISPR technology and gene editing, raising ethical questions about the potential loss of ancestral memories and spiritual heritage. Ultimately, the episode invites listeners to reconsider the value of the 98% of our DNA that has been historically dismissed as junk.

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the dreams. So with you tune in better guards to

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mind it's broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design. Then yeah,

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yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast.

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You're listening to broadcasting seeds. I'm your host, Bennett Tanton,

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and tonight we're going to crack open the part of

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you that science used to call junk, not your ex

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your DNA. For decades, biology textbooks told us that only

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about one to two percent of our genome actually codes

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for proteins. The rest non coding DNA just background noise,

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evolutionaries trash pile evolutions. Trash pile scientists literally call it

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junk DNA. But here's the thing. The longer we stare

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at that junk, the less junkie it looks. Researchers are

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now finding that big chunks of this non coding DNA

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act like switchboards and circuit breakers, controlling my and genes

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turn on how strongly they fire and where they light

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up in the body. Some of it shapes the three

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D folding of the genome. Other stretches act like enhancers

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or repressors, nudging gene expression up or down. A Stanford

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led study in twenty twenty three even showed how small

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changes in non coding repeats can be tied to conditions

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like autism or schizophrenia by subtly tweaking expression levels. So tonight,

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I want you to imagine something. What if that massive

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shadowy ninety eight percent of your genome isn't junk at all,

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but a lock box, a vault of hidden instructions, a

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record of what happened to your bloodline, and maybe a

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storage unit for the parts of you that aren't supposed

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to fit in a lab report. Because here's where it

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gets weird. We now have evidence that trauma can leave

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marks on the genome without changing the letters themselves. Epigenetic tags,

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little chemical markers on DNA can change how genes are expressed.

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They don't They don't rewrite the code. They work kind

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of like dimmer switches. Studies of Holocaust survivors and their

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children show altered methylation patterns on stress related genes like

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Kilo Fox, trop, Bravo, Papa five or kpb P five,

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showing up in both generations. More recent work on families

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displaced by war suggests those trauma signatures can show up

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across three generations, echoing down the line long after the

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bullets stop flying. Scientists call it intergenerational trauma. We've all

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heard of this through the broadcasting seeds lens. It raises

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a darker question, are we carrying spiritual shrapnel in our DNA?

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If trauma can etch itself into the regulatory layer of

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our genome, what else might be hiding there? What about

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thousands of years of bloodline warfare, genocide, ritual and covenant breaking?

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Are those just stories in old books? Or did they

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carve themselves into the epigenetic wallpaper of humanity. And then

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there's the biblical and paranormal side of this thing. If

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you've been around the show for a while, you know

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we talk about nephelim, about hybrid bloodlines, about that strange

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overlap between spiritual beings and human flesh described in Genesis

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and echoed in ancient traditions all over the world. When

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people today obsess over pure bloodlines or chosen lineages, we

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usually roll our eyes. But what if some of that

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obsession is rooted in a dimly remembered truth that the

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genome still carries forward in ways we barely understand. Is

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it possible there are latent codes, spiritual, mental, maybe even

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physical potentials buried in what used to be dismissed as

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just junk.

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Now.

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Layer on top of that, the thing every bio investor

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drools over, crisper. We now have tools that can slice

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and edit DNA with terrifying precision. Crisper Caste systems are

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already being used in labs and early clinical trials to

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correct mutations, disable harmful genes, and rewrite pieces of the genome.

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Ethicists are screaming from the sidelines that we're nowhere near

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understanding the long term consequences of hurtable genome editing changes

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that get passed down to future generations. But most of

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those debates focus on the one to two percent we

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understand the parts that make proteins. Almost nobody is talking

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about what happens when we swing that same blade near

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the uncharted ninety eight percent. What if, in our rush

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to fix humanity, we start knocking out on muting regions

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of dark DNA that our ancestors bled, prayed, and suffered

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to pass on. What if we casually edit out not

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just disease, but resilience or spiritual sensitivity, or some buried

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safeguard we don't even know exists yet. That's the heart

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of tonight's episode, The Dark DNA. What scientists can't explain.

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We're gonna look at this from three angles. How junk

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DNA quietly flipped the script on modern genetics, How trauma,

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war and bloodline conflict may be writing ghost stories into

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our genome, and how Crisper and the gene editing revolution

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might be tinkering with more than biology, maybe even editing

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out spiritual potential. If you're new here, welcome, to broadcasting seeds,

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where we ask the questions your freshman biology textbook definitely

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did not prepare you for before we dive into section one, though,

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do me a favor if this show makes you think,

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if it puts a little grit in your spiritual and

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mental gears, hit follow, leave a review, and share this

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episode with a friend who loves weird, uncomfortable truth. That's

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how this community grows, and how these conversations get out

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of the algorithm's basement and into the light. All right,

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take a breath. Think about that ninety eight percent of

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your DNA that nobody really understands. Are you ready to

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open the lock box section one? The ninety eight percent

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that refused to stay silent. All right, let's crack open

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the vault. For most of the twentieth century, geneticists looked

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at our DNA three a very narrow keyhole. They found

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the sections that made proteins, which are the blueprint pages,

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and assume the rest were just scribbles in the margins.

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And in nineteen seventy two, the term junk DNA was

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literally coined to describe the non coding majority of our genome.

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Because scientists couldn't find a purpose for it. But as

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technology got sharper, the junks started whispering back, and in

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the early two thousands, the Encode project that's the Encyclopedia

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of DNA elements, flip it's upside down by showing that

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at least eighty percent of the human genome is biochemically active,

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influencing which genes turn on and when and how intensely.

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Think of your DNA like a massive control room. The

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one two the one to two percent that codes for proteins.

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Those are the machines doing the work. The junk that's

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the technicians, the switchboards and security systems telling the machines

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what to do, when to do it, and how loud

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to operate. You don't you don't see them on stage,

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but without them, the whole show collapses. A Stanford led

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study in twenty twenty three drove this home even harder.

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Tiny changes in non coding DNA repetitive sequences that scientists

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use to ignore, directly shifted gene expression levels, influencing risks

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for disorders like autism and schizophrenia. So here's where the

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mystery starts to thicken. If the ninety eight percent that

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doesn't build your body is still running your body? What

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else is running? There are stretches of DNA that act

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like switches, waiting to be specific for a specific environmental trigger,

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whether that's stress, starvation, radiation, or even emotional experiences. Before

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they activate, some sequences look like fragments from long extinct

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viral infections embedded in our genome. Others seem like they're

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just they're turned off and purpose as if they're locked down.

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And that leads to a chilling possibility. What if some

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of these deactivated instructions are artifacts from humanity's prehistory. Not

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just about them, not just the stone tools and fire

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kind of history. I'm talking about the myth time, the

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era every culture remembers and whispers the watchers, the giants,

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the sky people, the gods that walked with man. You

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call them Nephelim and Unaki, Titans, fallen ones. The names differ,

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but the story is the same. It all rhymes. Something

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once crossed into humanity and left a mark. Now I'm

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not saying scientists have found giant DNA, but I'm saying

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there are enormous regions of our genome that have no

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known biological function. Two contain repeated patterns like locked doors

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three look like they were tampered with by something that

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didn't follow normal evolution. So here's the hypothesis that mainstream

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science won't really entertain yet. What if non coding DNA

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is not trash left behind by evolution, but a safety

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vault built to contain ancient genetic memories, abilities, or even identity.

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Imagine pre flood humanity carried abilities we can't even conceptualize, strength, perception, longevity,

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then catastrophe, judgment, cleansing, call it what you want. Those

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abilities get silenced, not erased, just buried, dormant, waiting, And

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now we're messing with the locks without even knowing their

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freaking locks. Because for the first time in human history,

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we're not just reading DNA, we're starting to edit it.

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We're turning screwdrivers inside the control room while we're blindfolded.

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Section two ghosts in the blood trauma's signature on the genome.

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Picture this a nightmare that isn't yours, A fear you've

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never earned, a reaction that comes out of nowhere. Like

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your boy, he remembers a threat that your mind can't place.

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What if that is an anxiety? What if that's inheritance?

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Science has a name for this epigenetics. It's not about

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changing the letters of your DNA. It's about adjusting the spotlights,

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turning some genes up and dimming others down. Like someone

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has been scribbling notes in the margin of your blueprint

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and the biggest editor of those notes. Trauma, the war

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that never ends. In recent years, studies have stared straight

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into horror and found it written in the genome. The

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children of genocide survivors show altered DNA methylation on stress

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response genes like KBP k f KBP five, the same

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pattern seen in their parents. Veterans and families who lived

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through war. Researchers found persistent epigenetic markers three generations deep

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tied to anxiety and PTSD like symptoms, meaning the war

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doesn't It doesn't end when the gun falls silent. It

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keeps marching through the bloodstream. You can be born into

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peace while your DNA still thinks the bombs are falling.

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Your grandmother's tears, your heartbeat. Imagine your ancestors standing on

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the edge of starvation, or hiding from invaders, or watching

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family disappear into smoke. Their survival meant their epigenetics dials shifted,

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metabolism set to scarcity modegilants turned up to freaking eleven

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hormones wired for panic at the slightest sound. They lived,

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but those switches stayed flipped. So now, generations later, someone

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at the doctor's office tells you you're genetically predisposed to obesity, anxiety, depression,

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autoimmune issues. And you think it's random, bad luck, bad genetics.

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But what if it's not a glitch. What if it's

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a memory, a biological message saying be ready. The danger

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comes again, the invisible bloodline war. And here's where the

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broadcasting seeds lens widens the frame. If trauma can echo

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in your DNA, so can oppression, so can conquest. So

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can bloodline warfare. Not metaphor warfare, but real battles for

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survival across millennia. Every tribe, every nation, every people, people

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group that ever faced extinction may have carved those battles

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into their descendant's genomes. And what about spiritual trauma? The

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family that once practiced dark ritual but later turned from it?

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From it, do consequences linger in the epigenetic dirt? The

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lineage that survives something inhuman do they still carry a

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marker that doesn't quite make sense of modern biology. Some

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epigenetic signatures seem like over reactions to normal life phobias

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with zero origin, panic around specific places or symbols, behavior

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patterns that make zero logical sense. I also think about

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a theory called the uncanny Valley. If you don't know

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what I'm talking about, look it up. What if those alarms?

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What if the genome is trying to protect you from

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something that once hunted your bloodline? If trauma marks the genome,

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what else does We've proven trauma leaves marks. We've proven

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those marks can be passed down. We've proven some of

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them never fully turn off. So let's take one step

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toward the uncanny. If fear can rewrite DNA, why couldn't Faith? Could? Worship?

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Could covenant? Could encounters with beings we write off as

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myth dark experiences x themselves into the genome? Could contact

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with the divine? Do the same? Because if the genome

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remembers war maybe it also remembers the warriors. Section three.

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Rewriting the lock box the crisper cast nine threat to

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human potential. Now we step into the future, a place

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where ancestors locked up code might not just be ignored anymore,

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but actively rewritten Crisper has been hailed as a revolution

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a tool capable of fixing genetic disease, correcting mutations, even

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erasing de debilitating disorders from a family's bloodline forever. There's

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enormous fraunam promise in that, and in many cases that

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promise may very well it could still very well be

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worth it. But what happens when we point those molecular

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scissors or better yet, scalpels at the ninety eight percent

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of the genome We just don't understand yet, the unknown

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unknowns of gene editing. That's what Crisper operates by cutting

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DNA at a target site, prompting cellular repair machinery to

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fix the break, and that might successfully disable a harmful

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gene or insert a beneficial change. But the repair process

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isn't it's not fool proof. Cells often rely on error

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prone mechanisms like NHEJ on homolugaus and joining. I don't know,

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I say that homologous end joining n HEJ that can

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introduce insertions, deletions, or rearrangements. These may not just affect

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the targeted gene, but can rimple ripple outward. A twenty

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twenty five review just this year flagged a serious concern.

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Even on target cuts may lead to large structural variations

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like big delicians, chromosomal translocations, or rearrangements spanning megabases. That

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isn't a tiny tweak, that's shuffling entire neighborhoods of the genome.

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In short, even if Crisper hits exactly where intended, the

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aftermath on the genome's architecture can be unpredictable. And when

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we're melding with the dark genome, the regulatory non coding

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mysterious ninety eight percent unpredictable might as well be dangerous.

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What could be lost at or erased is if the

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uncharted regions of our genome do indeed carry ancestral memories,

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epigenetic scars, or latent switches, perhaps blueprints for more than

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we could ever understand what happens when those get disrupted.

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We might actually accidentally wipe out protective mechanisms, perhaps resilience

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to stress, latent disease resistance, or adaptive traits forged across

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generations of survival. Even we might erase blunt or scrambled

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parts of our biology that science doesn't yet recognize. Behavioral

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tendencies ancestral instincts are even genetic safeguards built over millennia,

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we might render some dormant switches irrecoverable, leaving future generations

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bereft of potential that could once have emerged under certain conditions.

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That's why most leaving scientific bodies argue for now the

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gremline editing challenges we pass onto the offspring is too risky,

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too uncertain. The effects, both harmful and beneficials are unpredictable

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at best. The ethics of editing out what we don't

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understand this. It isn't just science, it's philosophy, it's legacy,

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its identity. And when we talk about editing genes, most

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people think about eliminating disease, the good stuff right, preventing suffering,

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or giving future kids a better life. And that conversion

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conversation does matter. But beneath that moral veneer lies a

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deeper question. Do we have the right to rewrite, to

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anomalize the part of our biology we don't understand? We

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might fix a disease gene, but what else are we

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erasing while we're doing it? In twenty twenty one, one

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ethicist describe the promise of crisper not just this therapy,

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but as a path toward a new kind. It's the

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word of huge, the idea that certain lives are more

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valuable or worthy than others, defined by which genes we

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choose to keep. When you consider the possibility that the

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junk DNA is actually the vault of ancestral memory, war scars,

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spiritual heritage, bloodline identity, than gene editing becomes something far

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heavier than medicine. It becomes heritage editing, tinkering with the

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unknown and the unremembered. And here's the darkest possibility. In

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our rush towards better, towards cleaner genetics, towards an engineered future,

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we may not just be deleting disease. We may be

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deleting history. Not just the family's medical history, no, no,

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but the echo of bloodlines, of trauma, of survival, of

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old spiritual contracts. If the dark genome is humanity's collective

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memory vault, then every cut crisper, every cut crisper makes,

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could be a lock broken, a page torn, a door

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left open. And once those locks are broken, there's no

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guarantee the memories will be accessible again. Period. So here

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we come to an end. The lock box and the legacy,

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staring at the blueprint of humanity and realizing the most

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important pages might be the ones written in an visible link.

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Tonight we cracked open three possibilities. Number one, the ninety

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eight percent of our genome, once called junk, is anything

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but junk. It's active, it's influential, and it may be

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the real operating system of human life. Number two, Trauma, war, starvation,

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oppression can leave molecular fingerprints on the system that echo

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through generations, shaping who we are even before we're born.

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And number three, and with crisper humanity now holds the

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power to start editing that system, and editing it without

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understanding what we be erasing. That should spark awe, that

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should spark cast and it should spark humility, because maybe

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the dark genome is more than biology. Here we go.

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Maybe it's where spirit meets flesh, where the ancient meets

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the now, Where the battles we fought, our ancestors fought,

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and the ones that we lost as well still whisper

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in ourselves. I don't know if our DNA remembers the nephelum.

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I don't know if it hides a record of giants

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or angels, or a world that existed before the flood.

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But I do know this, we haven't even begun to

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understand the story our genome is trying to tell us,

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and until we do, we should treat those sections with reverence,

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not like trash to be cleared, but like a vault

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waiting to be deciphered. Your bloodline survived everything that went

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through to get here, the victories and the horrors, the

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blessings and the curses, the prayers and also the screams.

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All of it left a mark. So maybe the real

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question is, then, what's wrong with our DNA? Maybe the

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question is what is our DNA protecting us from remembering?

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As we move into the future where we can alter

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the genome at will, we need to ask ourselves are

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we preserving humanity or redesigning it into something that forgot

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where it all came from. You've been listening to broadcasting seeds.

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I'm your host Benettan, and I hope tonight planted at

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least one question inside you that refuses to stay quiet.

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If this episode hit home, if it made you think,

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wonder or stare into the dark with new eyes, please follow,

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can find merch. Until next time, take care of your spirit,

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take care of your mind, and maybe listen a little

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closer to the whispers inside your DNA. Good night, loucking marble.

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Nookie on in my bloodstream. It are can quite full

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get Grinn doesn't never spoken, but I feel what he saw,

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A shadow in the mirror, ritten riding to the law.

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I got absent myselves from a war I never fought.

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I've been honed memories that ain't even my thoughts. There's

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whispers and sut een shan itching hands reaching up out

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of pieces I don't understand. They called me by name,

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and nobody even know. It's fire in my blood.

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And his orders in my bones, all my hunger.

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Though she never missed the meal, said a fuse just

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a feeling, but a swear fuses. Something stocked our family

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along before we took the shave.

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Some giant in the bloodline they tried.

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Hard to raise. Now the doctors want to come where

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the spirits still had. See the cleaning out the jumper.

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That's what legends survive, these whispers in the.

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Bus engine, hands reaching up out of bee, said Dorn

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under stands.

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They call me by a name and nobody you know.

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There's fire in.

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My blood.

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And it's older than my boon.

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Don't breathe what your don't No, don't rewrite what you

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can see.

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For every secret that you steal from the dark, there's

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a prize carved into your family Tree's whispers in the

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heathish every trauma, every trum, try by some unseen hand,

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and then call me by your name, nor even solder

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serving No, because the truth ain't anybody. It's buried in

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the chromosome. So when the scientist I got it, tell

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them leave the locks alone. So when the scientists are cutting,

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tell them either locks alone,