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I love in a world.\u00a0 The borders of my particular country are irrelevant in the eternal view. \u201cAnd awake and arise form the dust, O daughter of Zion, and be no more confounded.\u00a0 Enlarge thy borders forever!\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,364,363,365],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-america","tag-haiti","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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