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Ms. Towle, What an articulate and substantive speech on the myriad causes and effects that modern life has foist on all of us in the face of population growth exacerbated by climate change, unfiltered Capitalism, and the "hardening of the human heart," as you state. May gratitude for the miraculous gift of life and our joint responsibility to protect it and our natural rights as breathing entities, be the result of your fine and critically important analyses in Crossing the Line. Bravo.

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Thank you, Mr. Heath. This was the speech that I honed on my 75-event nationwide book tour for CROSSING THE LINE. Fortunately, it was captured on video just this once. And on the Day After, too. My gratitude abounds for your taking the time to listen and leave such generous comments. Thank you!

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We watched the returns from our AirBnb in Manhattan. It was a weird experience because it wasn't really an AirBnb, it was the Aya Hotel at 2nd Ave. & 45th, near the UN Building. I had just ran the marathon for the 2nd year in a row. Before a winner emerged, we turned off the TV and went to bed. When we got back to Las Cruces, NM, we went about our usual business of feeding people at El Caldito, the soup kitchen, including immigrants, of course. We're lucky to live in a blue state where our elected officials like Sen. Ben Ray Luján will fight the good fight against DC.

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Thank you so much for listening and sharing your story, Karl. Are you still able to serve at El Caldito? I'm already hearing about advocacy, attorney, and general aid organizations having their funding withdrawn and their access to clients denied. Stay strong in NM. Elsewhere, the US is a full-blown police state with ICE and CBP acting as T&Co's Gestapo-style forces. I warned that this could happen in my book, CROSSING THE LINE. When T turned CBP on peaceful protesters during the BLM demonstrations of 2020, that's when I saw the bully on his illegitimate pulpit for exactly what he is: a tyrant who needs a scapegoat because he's got no real ideas and no real power. Wishing you and yours luck in the dark days ahead!

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Yes, fortunately T has no reach into El Caldito. It's so much worse over in El Paso for aid organizations because of Abbott and Paxton.

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I thank you so so much! From the bottom of my heart! You have given us a voice chingona!💜

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Hello, gorgeous! So nice to hear from you. You know I stand on strong shoulders, right? And they are yours! Abrazos fuertes! XO

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