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+Title: The Feeling Is Mutual
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: symmetry, deniably allegorical
+Status: draft
+
+In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, there was a Christian and an atheist who hateread each other's blogs—actually, no. Not hateread. Rather, read with a sentiment one-third of the way between sympathy and contempt. Each recognized the statistical signature of a kindred soul beneath the other's twisted ramblings.
+
+"[I can imagine how I might have turned out the same way](https://archive.is/bPPyk)," said the one, "if I had been born a few years earlier and read the wrong things in the wrong order."
+
+"[I can easily imagine myself](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/#imagine-myself) converting," said the other, "in a nearby possible past in which my analogue read different books in a different order."