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I am a father of four.  And I am still coming 'round to the fact of my oldest daughter, Sophie, having turned 18.  She will be the first of them to graduate high school, with honors at that.  She has been offered "free rides" recently by a couple universities based on her grades, and has chosen Ball State for its computer science program.  And, being eighteen, she immediately registered to vote so that she could (pardon the political post) vote the orange-haired fascist out.  She and her friends and fellow classmates seem determined to undo all the injustice, unrest, and damage that has had such a terrible effect here in the states.  Those whom I've met in this next generation have a real fire under them.  It's been giving me hope.

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