God creates heaven and earth, then he lets light be there, makes Day and Night, creates animals and finally creates man. God does this in six days and rests on the seventh, as we may well know. So God puts man in a garden called Eden in which lies the tree of knowledge of good and evil (bit of a long name, if I may say so.), and tells him not to eat from it because the day he does will be the day he dies. Oh, and man's name is Adam. That's kind of important. From this man, God creates woman, named Eve. Then a snake who is actually Satan in disguise shows up and convinces Eve to eat from the tree, and then Eve convinces Adam to eat from the tree, and then God's mad because they disobeyed orders and curses woman with painful childbirth and also makes it so man in general has to kill to eat and experience disease and whatnot. God banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden lest they eat from the tree of life and become immortal.
My origin story is that I'm from Lexington, Kentucky, born and raised. My family hails from England and Scotland and Ireland and Germany, and then my grandfather swears we have a decent amount of Cherokee/Latin American in us (though we're hesitant to believe him.) (Not that Cherokee and Latin American are mutually exclusive, it's just that my grandfather changes which one it is every time he says something about it.) My family's religious but I'm not a religious person. I like to think that one's origins do not have to dictate one's life or what one does with their life.
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