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82. I was here when Kerry lost.

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 02:33 PM

Nov 2018

It was good to have the community. People may have been distraught but it was also a source of comfort and shared grieving. It was a huge blow that the site was inaccessible on election day 2016. It made a terrible situation worse.

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