Tyr Anasazi:  When your parents combined their DNA , the odds of them producing someone with your precise genetic pattern were ten million to _ one _ . Add in the odds of your parents meeting and bothering to procreate in the first place , and the odds of your existence are along the lines of drawing three straight Imperial Courts in an honest game of Vedran whist ! If you overcame those odds once , who 's to say you ca n't do it again ?