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I had the good fortune this weekend to spend some time with friends and family and unplug my brain for a bit, so of course, I wound up thinking about work. Specifically, I wound up chewing on the fact that I have been with Truthout for nearly ten years now. In my last article, I ran through a long list of everything that has happened in the world during those years, but my list wasn’t nearly complete. Needless to say, it has been a long, hard road, and I realized this weekend that without Truthout, I very likely would have simply lost my mind.
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