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That last line...

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Thank you, Robert! I was going to have you read it on the call but you had to hop. Chuck read my first version.

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I would have been honored!

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Next time! You’re a great reader.

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Be smart, not too smart. Pow! Smile, but not too wide. Pow! Whatever you do, do not be angry. Bang!

With your brilliance, you've done it again. Thank you for putting words to the personal angst I'm feeling about social justice these days.

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Could just be a feminist poem too, aye? Xxo

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Wow, Suzanna! So very Powerful!

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Thanks so much, friend!

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Wow! That poem is so powerful. It needs to be out there for the world to see.

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Thank you, Linda. Appreciate your comment!

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Succinct and strong rebuke!

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Thanks so much, Cheryl.

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Another powerful poem about the backtracking of our country. Thank you.

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Many thanks for reading and commenting!

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Powerful truth.

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Thank you for your comment, Sue!

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wow, amazing.

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Thank you very much for reading and commenting.

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This cuts to the bone. Well done.

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Thank you, Diane. I always appreciate your comments and am grateful for your readership. As an aside, I've forwarded your column along to several folks who love birds, plants and the natural world.

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My sincere thanks!

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Thank you, Suzanna. I am passing these powerful words far and wide.

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Thank you so much for subscribing and commenting.

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“You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.”

At what point does this 'special treatment' end and no one is given an advantage to atone for some past injustice?

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