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Hi Cecilia,

I like how you stated that, “ … we listen to more of what we think and the things and choices we do are more common and the things we do wrong are more tolerable then in our history”. In particular, I agree that our curiosity for knowledge has led us to reflect more from our history and how we as a society have

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