All confirmation bias, all the time

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Could Have

by Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)

It could have happened.
It had to happen.
It happened earlier. Later.
Nearer. Farther off.
It happened, but not to you.

You were saved because you were the first.
You were saved because you were the last.
Alone. With others.
On the right. On the…