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betsuni

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5. Americans can be extraordinarily generous. Volunteering, donating food and clothing and things to the
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:02 PM
Mar 19

"poor needy" (as my mother used to say), donating money. If you fall down usually somebody's going to help you. You can sit next to a stranger on the bus and they'll tell you about their life, even really personal stuff, in a way I find thrilling, and you can be someone's friend almost instantly without knowing them from childhood. There's something kind of childlike or adolescentlike in the American personality.

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