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My son learned to count to ten.

This is the first step into being a member of society.
Not the ability to count and read or write but the action of counting.
That's all we do.
Count hours, count days
Count dollars, count dimes
Count how many times you got up after the fall
Count how long you can take it
How much you have left.
Congratulations, I told him
But in my mind I apologized.