General Knowledgespeaking topic
Among the Roma and in some other societies, what matters is not how many years old you are but which events you have lived through; people say 'I was born in the year of the flood.' Time is kept with stories instead of numbers. Did reducing our birth date to a figure make time easier, or did it drain the soul out of it?
— anthropology, event-based timekeeping
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