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closeupready

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1. Sometimes, I think too many of us lack perspective

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:45 PM

Mar 2014

which helping people like this guy brings. Lots of people, even those born American, can not read or write. Would love to volunteer to help such people, but not sure how to do that.

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I am setting here in the Library and am next to a young man from Egypt! [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 OP

Sometimes, I think too many of us lack perspective closeupready Mar 2014 #1

Tell him we don't like or want any Muslim foreigners in this country! quinnox Mar 2014 #2

I work with so many people like him as a Literacy Volunteer tutor... CTyankee Mar 2014 #3

New immigrants, especially the ones who have been through hell, Warpy Mar 2014 #4

Being under 18, alone, and not yet a citisen... Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #5

I hope you set him straight and told him the truth: the American Dream no longer exists, this Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #6

Can't say that. Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #7

DU has to set you straight, then, too. Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #8

It is members here that have been helping me. Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #9

Good, I'm glad the right ones have been speaking to you. Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #10