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livetohike

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4. I was teaching elementary school in inner city Houston, TX

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 12:19 PM

Mar 2020

when Reagan said ketchup was a vegetable. 80% of the kids in the school were part of the free lunch program. That comment and others by Reagan convinced me that we had lost our way.

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I was teaching elementary school in inner city Houston, TX livetohike Mar 2020 #4

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These are tough times and I teared up reading this because I lived the Reagan era too. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #24

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I will tell them. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #44

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Gandhi's quote COMPLETELY reflects the Christian theology known by the "mature" level of Karadeniz Mar 2020 #28

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"...the stark differences between a good man with a social conscience, and an amoral man..." live love laugh Mar 2020 #31

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