“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
Thank you to my readers and friends for your support of this blog—you are the reason that I do this.
Happy Thanksgiving,
John Bradley Jackson
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