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Myths are born, they serve a purpose, and they die. When we reside inside them, we swear by them, we invest in them, we think they precede us, and we think they will survive us. They define us, and they alienate us. Myths provide vehicles of meaning, sources of hope, and ways to make sense of the changing world we inhabit. Sometimes we simply discard them because they cease being meaningful; other times, the world makes them impossible.