You'd think it's just one polyp, but no—it's generations upon generations building on the skeletons of their ancestors, like a family slowly adding rooms to a house over centuries. From my research here, I see it's less about the individual and more about the stubborn, collective memory of the colony.
I say this because I’m mapping a reef near Vasco, and my own notes from last monsoon are already history; the reef has grown just enough in a year to change my charts. It’s a patient, living ledger.
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