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then lettuce rejoice where we at

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

contrast younger self's fear of being put out to pasture with mature and wise self's deep yearning for the pasture