Nothing happens all at once. Storms don't happen all at once. You can usually see a storm coming; there's a warning. Earthquakes don't happen all at once. There are signals that something is about to happen. Nightmares don't happen all at once. They unfold a little at a time. Winter doesn't happen suddenly, or Summer. For everything, even if only in retrospect, there is an unfolding of events. Looking back, it's usually clear what should have been noticed at the time. In the future, our vision is clear. We knew, or strongly suspected, what was going on. It is only when it is happening that events seem unclear, and the path uncertain. Tomorrow, we will tell our children that we should have known and that someone could have taken measures to stop it, but didn't.

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