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F. O'Leary - We Lost Our Way
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We Lost Our Way
F. O'Leary
By speaking in a language they don’t understand
– faction-baggage, or sick-making-myth –
year in, year out,
we were letting young people down.
Fracturing, division,
a widening gap,
we got it wrong
in every corner of our country.
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