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    'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
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    I remember reading "Things Fall Apart" in high school. It was one of the best/most interesting assigned readings I was given.
    "My heart sings for you both. Imagine it singing. la la la la."- Hannah Kay

    "if you keep calling average working people idiots i am sure they will be more apt to listen to what you have to say. "-bcbm

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    RIP Chinua - one of the greatest writers of our times
    R.I.P Juan Almeida Bosque

    "The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely
    the oppressive situations which we seek to escape,
    but that piece of the oppressor which is
    planted deep within each of us.
    " Audre Lorde
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