>You made me smile, and made me very glad our country is still being refreshed and renewed by people who see the vision.
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>Half of my ancestors have been here for 300 years, the other half came off the boat sometime around the beginning of the last century. I grew up around mostly second generation kids whose families spoke Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian or Slovenian at home. Many had arrived after the war, about the time I was born. In the late fifties, some of my friends were newly arrived from Hungary.
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>And all shared impression both you and Tracy articulate so well.
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>And while it is true that like any society there are many here who are prosperous or powerful through some accident of birth, we neither idolize or even resent such people, because we know that if that is what we want, the path is there to have it.
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>But mostly we cherish making our own choices to live our lives in ways that make us personally happy.
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>Dimitry, you obviously came to the right place and we are lucky to have you and everyone like you. There is always room here for people who really get what is going on here.
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>Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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>It's a guarantee of opportunity, not outcome.
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Amen. And thank you for your kind words.