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“For the ancients, the scapegoat served as the healing agent for the larger whole. In modern times, the concept of the scapegoat has mutated from merely the bearer of misfortune to the person or group blamed for bringing misfortune.”

― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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I meant to say I've lived here for over 30 years!

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I've lived here and was living in denial of the boost Bardella has given the RN. But I know a number of non-RN voters, especially young adults, who didn't vote and who are scrambling to make sure to be able to do so now. The question is, who for?

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"Snap out of it!!" That's Cher's famous line from the film, "Moonstruck." https://youtu.be/iLgMFwStTHc?si=cXBtxJdNhgxBoFwA

That film depicts exactly the courtship of my wife and I; I was a gypsy pharmacist and she was a stunningly beautiful pharmacy technician. I told her I was falling in love with her one evening when we were working in the IV Room; she said she didn't sleep for a week afterwards pondering that most improbable, unexpected and totally far-fetched. announcement. She always said "Oh my gawd!" just like Cher and our romance was as chaotic and wrong as the romance in Moonstruck. It was so wrong that it was right...we're still in a chaotic-wrong-romance almost 35 years later. It's fresh everyday.

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