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Not all of us celebrate Kwanzaa, but the courage to embrace authenticity with joyous unrestraint is certainly something to celebrate by lighting a candle, raising a glass, and doing something completely unexpected that lifts our spirits. “We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other,” Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin believed. “We need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
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