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Getting Started

After graduation, after a divorce, after an election

On the phone, at a gas station, in our dreams

With fists, with words, with kindness

A stolen letter, a posthumous package, a Christmas card from a stranger

A hasty purchase, a starvation diet, an unwanted pregnancy

A trip to the Antarctic, a 500-mile pilgrimage, a two-hour bus ride

Chinese New Year in Philadelphia, Thanksgiving in Mexico, Passover in prison

Getting married, losing a child, singing in a choir

Claiming a heritage, becoming a citizen, landing in a foreign jail

Sharing a cab, hitching a ride, staying in a marriage

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