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The path to victory is littered with activities and art, like an archipelago

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Sep 30, 2020
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Picture two men on a stage.

Both men are surrounded by millions of tiny people floating in the air around them like fireflies. (Sort of like Tinker-bells.)

One man’s fireflies are zipping around angry, shouting, making ugly faces, holding rifles, punching the air with their tiny fists, drinking and slobbering and lighting torches. Complaining and jeering…

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