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Why I’m raising my daughter in Chicago (to prepare her to live in America)

08.01.2016 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

“I believe that if one can experience diversity, touch a variety of its people, laugh at its craziness, distill wisdom from its tragedies, and attempt to synthesize all this inside oneself without going crazy,” said the writer James Alan McPherson who died last week, “one will have earned the right to call oneself ‘citizen of the United States.’”

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