Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising to
ward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? a. Everybody was privileged. b. There were only privileged people. c. The others would all be condemned one day. d. And he would be condemned, too.
Hereditary is the transmission of physical and genetic qualities and attributes of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. So Susie understood very well that her height is as a result of the gene pass on to her by her parents and that good environment and eating healthy as a kid also contributes to one's physic.
