Ritual-licious

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Sam: Rituals are important. When two pods of orcas have been apart, they'll reunite at the surface of the ocean before all diving down to the bottom. It's called the orca greeting ceremony. It's how they know everything is okay. Because that's what rituals do. They make everything okay.

Sam: Humans are the only animals that have a birthday ritual. Other animals don't use time to measure age. They measure age through milestones.

Casey: Sixteen 'cause it's my 16th birthday?
Sam: Yes, because it's your 16th birthday. And the square root of 16 is four, and that's my number. So it's the perfect amount of time.
Casey: Okay.

Zahid: Sammy, I did something bad. Really bad. Like, stray-dog-on-a-highway bad.

Sam: In nature, there are a lot of rituals that no one ever questions. Like, why a peacock spreads its tail feathers, or why a gorilla beats its chest. It's just necessary for mating or survival. Humans, however, have a lot of unnecessary rituals that have nothing to do with mating or survival. But even though we don't need rituals in the same way as animals... some of them are still kind of nice.

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