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multigraincracker

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6. I high school I thought Ayn Rand

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:09 PM

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was the ticket. The next year I read Karl Marx and did a 180.
Met my wife at a Secular Humanist Fellowship and had seen her at Democratic Party meetings. Wasn’t looking for love, but found it.
Good luck.

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