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,...is included in the Heritage Foundation's numbers. Of course, those "think tankers" don't dirty themselves with actually taking a gander at the abject poverty these folks survive.
It seems that I, a highly educated liberal/progressive, am a rare bird having chosen to live in rural America. Well, more accurately, I didn't choose the extremely difficult personal circumstances that led me here; but, I am choosing to remain for awhile. It's been a wonderful experience that I will take with me for the rest of my life.
The two most important strengths I have acquired as a rural American are a healthier sense of humility (allowing me to actually "listen" to people no matter what their particular path in life) and an even greater love for the human spirit. I suppose taken together those two strengths represent a purer form of tolerance.
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