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Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Jennifer Granholm

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Jennifer Granholm
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 5
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Jennifer Mulhern Granholm
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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