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While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
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