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the Sands of Time - Doctors Tale - part 3.

Doctor Wilson’s Personal Notes:
April 6th, 2106, On this day in history I always think about what’s happened before.

Even my colleagues consider this day cursed, but it didn’t seem that way back in 2015.

I was their, when McCloud Pharmaceuticals announced it’s “Longevity” formula. A genome treatment that would extend life four fold.

120 is the new 40, we laughed.

This is gonna change the world, we said. And it did.

All projections were that within 100 years humanity would outgrow the Earth resulting in a catastrophe for our world. In our haste to ensure the survival of both Earth and ourselves, we looked at ways to move people to other worlds.

Finally, on this same day in the year 2080. the Terraformer prototype was finished and installed on the moon. It was suppose to be the tool of our survival, instead it was the instrument of our downfall. I was alive for this as well, and the sight of the Moon plummeting into the Earth still haunts me to this day.

Maybe this day is cursed.
- Dr. Anna Wilson.

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