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Big_K

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15. Wonderful essay

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Reply #9)

Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:27 PM

Jan 2017

I feel very much the same way as your final paragraph -- yet I was born here, a white male, in the South. I am not celebrating. I am in a constant state of near-panic and taking a very dark view of the future. I sat under my desk in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis. This time I'm just going to stand up and let the blast take me.

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