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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

— Carl Sandburg

A small wooden cradle holding a green seedling on a cobalt-blue cloth.
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Here a newborn is treated as a sign that existence is meant to continue. Framing it as God's opinion turns birth into a kind of vote of confidence in the future, so each new child reads as a hopeful answer to whether life is worth carrying on.

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