Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

Kim Edwards
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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea. When the first humans came, they carved a hole in the sea so that they could see the world. But as people built other things on top of the sea, the surface of the water became less and less visible. In fact, if you measure from our current waterline, you can see that we’ve been living on land for more than a million years.

Source: The Memory Keepers Daughter

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