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dagw on March 21, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Numbering should start at zero (1982)

For human cultural purposes, you are 0 days old at the time and date recorded for your birth

While that is the norm, there both are and have been cultures where you are 1 when you are born (as in you are living your first year of life).

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