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Thank you for this. After the tariffs/no tariffs jerk around, I thought, “I’ll spend the next four years knitting.” But this from your newsletter is better “humans can live with high regard for each other, and that the high regard for each other is the way of the future.”

My father was a good man. His masculinity was to take care of his family, respect others, help his neighbor, serve at church, speak the truth, stand up to bullies, protect the weak. He suffered hard times and heartbreak and he never gave up on anyone. He was a democrat, a street cleaner, a teamster, a survivor of polio. He served in the Korean occupation and lost a 22 year-old son to motorcycle accident. He was full of courage and it came out as kindness, not bluster.

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Lee Marvin was one of my favorite actors in my early years. My father also loved him. When I was young we watched war movies together. My father was the best man I ever knew. He valued family first. And if he was still alive he would call out these new republican politicians as bullies and thief’s.

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