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Powerful, Laura. I hope you’re feeling a little better now too.

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I am familiar with the poem, but I didn’t know who had written it or anything about him.

My mother was a Holocaust denier of sorts—when pressed, she said she thought that something had happened but that it was highly exaggerated and that only about a million Jews were killed.

She picked Christmas Eve dinner to drop this information. I was at my parents’ house with some of my close friends.

I was so furious with her (she was playing poke the liberals, but was sincere in what she was saying.)

She asked me why I was so angry, and I remember saying to her that I would have been in the first group they came for, with my disability, when they were practicing on the elderly and disabled with various extermination methods.

I have no doubt that a second Trump administration would target the elderly and the disabled because they cost money.

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