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WE ARE your lungs

Your body

Hello! Yes, you already know us – we’re semi-famous – everyone’s been name dropping us since the pandemic started.

At least, you think you know us. Do you know what we look like? No, not like those plastic models in doctor’s offices, and (hopefully) not like the soot-sacks pictured on cigarette packets.

We’re ethereal, light and in perpetual motion. If you put your hand on us as we fill, we waft prettily around you. But we’re far from delicate. From your first breath to your last, we are here for you.

That first breath is pretty magical. A baby poised on the verge of entering an air-filled world is an untested machine. If everything’s gone right in the previous nine months, it

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