The numbers show you what is. Stories show you what that means.
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Facts are only facts if they agree with me, of course. It is my holy right to always be correct even in the face of evidence that I am not.
It is a well known that socks, left untended, develop all kinds of life. Perhaps when it's been left for a few centuries it's congealed into something with a soul. Although what could cause a sock to have shadows on its soul is beyond my ability to guess.