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    To Roger Goodell – Step Up!

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    Adam & Eve – The Analytical Mind Meets the Reproductive Body

    After God made the heavens and the earth, he then filled the oceans and lakes with fish and then filled the land with vegetation for his animals to thrive. He then set out to make man and woman. He began with man and made him the “protector” with large muscles to build a shelter and an analytical brain to solve problems. God then made woman to reproduce a child that is a liking of her and her man. Now, God had to spend some extra time on woman for this extraordinary responsibility in God’s plan. To reproduce, woman must have the ability to “build a nest” for her infant to grow. God figured the nest…