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Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
Hannah Whitaker for The New York Times. Prop stylist: Emily Mullin. By MICHAEL POLLAN I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human