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Dread Pirate Roberts

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4. Right?

Reply to 70sEraVet (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 22, 2022, 02:15 PM

Dec 2022

I live in a rural town in a very blue state and see some of the same things-but nowhere like what this guy had to deal with growing up and living as an adult. Quite a guy to be able to see the light through all of the interference. It’s one thing to have convictions-quite another to live them when all around you are hostile to your thinking-even if that thinking is merely being a decent human being.

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