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To the editor:
So the election is over, and our favorite candidate lost. Well, praise the Lord anyhow!
Come on. Rappahannock, let's get it altogether. With malice toward none and love toward all, let’s live so that we will be known by our disposition, not just by our position.
One of the loveliest lessons that I have ever learned in life, 1 learned
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