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A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

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Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
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