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What happened to the melting pot?

24 August 2024

9:00 AM

24 August 2024

9:00 AM

From time to time, an event presages a change of more general significance than the circumstances appear at the time. This occurred when a constituent visited me more than two decades ago. In his early forties, quietly spoken and of Middle-Eastern background, he was accompanied by his daughter, a girl of about 12 years of age.

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