re: Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event

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the host cell provides nutrients, energy, protection and other benefits to the symbiote, until eventually it can no longer survive on its own

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Microcosm of what the government is doing to the middle class. What began as a mutually beneficial relationship has turned to a government that grows in size and power until they swallow us whole and make us completely dependent on them taking us from symbiote to slave. Sorry this comment should be on the poli board.