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" I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. "

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