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My Thanksgiving Thanks

November 24, 2016

It's Thanksgiving week in America. And I just want to say that I'm thankful for this man in Kurdistan.

'Cause I know sometimes things are shitty in life for all of us—particularly in that region of the world. But things aren't always shitty. Some folks over there are in the "shitty", but they are alive and well facing it with grit and gratefulness.

God have mercy; I want to be like them.

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