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Rowshan Nemazee's avatar

Such riveting reading, Heather! While I have tried hard to become well-versed in US history during my thirty years as an immigrant, nothing has educated me more deeply nor more fully than your letters. Sometimes, I have to read them more than once to fill my heart and mind with your uncanny acuity.

This letter, filled with such profound sensitivity, is one for the books:

"And yet, of course, it has been Republican economic policies that opened up the possibility for Democrats to try new approaches to the economy, to make it serve all Americans, rather than a favored few. As FDR put it: 'It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.'"

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