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For one of us to be born, it took:2 parents4 grandparents8 great-grandparents16 great-great-grandparents32 third-great-grandparents64 fourth-great-grandparents128 fifth-great-grandparents256 sixth-great-grandparents512 seventh-great-grandparents1,024 eighth-great-grandparents2,048 ninth-great-grandparentsIn only the last 11 generations, that’s 4,094 ancestors—roughly within the 300 years before you or I were born!Pause for a moment and think…Where did each of them come from?How many battles did they fight?How much hunger did they endure?How many wars did they see?How many hardships did our ancestors survive?And also, how much love, strength, joy, and encouragement did they pass down to us?How much of their will to survive did each one leave inside us, allowing us to live today?We are here only because of everything they went through.❤️