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Nixie

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2. That's sort of how I'm initially taking it. A global statement --you worded it

Reply to Starbeach (Original post)

Thu May 8, 2025, 02:55 PM

May 2025

perfectly: “a direct counterforce to the age of Trump.” I am feeling that too. Too much worldly angst over one evil American had to be counteracted with a message of peace and hope in the hands of a new Pope.

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