Great Regulars: How are we, she [Wislawa Szymborska] asks,

as recipients, to keep count, to categorize, to line them all up? Can we? Do we? We don't. Why? We are insensitive probably, that's why . . . she seems to be saying, to all births except our own that we know as celebration. All others simply escape our attention.

from Bhaskar Banerjee: Ezine articles: Birthday--Celebrating God's Bounties

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