inspired by a number?

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We invite you to take one statistic from your life and create an essay about it. Pick any number you want: your cholesterol count, your bowling average, today’s pollen count or air-pollution index, the number of American GIs dead in Iraq, the number of syllables in a haiku, the projected population of Earth in 2015, Ted Williams’ career batting average, any data point you choose. Just pick one—and only one, please—that speaks to you, that moves you to arrange words into meaning.