By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to col…

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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. ✨ Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.
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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. ✨ Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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