Before there was Life, there wasn't nothing. Nothing came years after people did, although it meant much more than they thought it did and didn't matter much anyways. 

      Before there was Life, there was Still. Still was not alone and not nothing, and for eons of time (before Time could count in eons) all was well. 

    Light and dark came as a pleasant surprise, and all else began changing rapidly after that. Sky woke first, then his brother Sea and their sister Earth, and the world was large and wonderful to them. Life came a while even after that, and with him came creatures and plants to fill the earth. 

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