The Shrine

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"Race only skin deep." This would have made high school biology a hell of a lot more interesting.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>ew, inbreds.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Everybody's family. Pretty cool study, and pretty amazing coincidence. I wonder what the odds are of that happening?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Quite the opposite. Inbreding spawns similar features among people. These people are radically different. When I finally see what a Black Japanese kid looks like, I think "Damn, that's our future."</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That a group of people have a common ancestor 100,000 years back? Probably pretty good.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; '>but ugly is to the bone? oh yeah, and *cough-cough* All your base are belong to us! hahaha!</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>But these 17 students in this one class, in this city on the other side of the ocean? Eh, given it's San Jose, as you probably said, chances aren't that bad....</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yeah, any group of people, I imagine the chances are good. It's just that in this case, it's tracable because we know about a very specific genetic mutation.</div>