Generations: Passage

You wake up one day, and you go off to greet your parents. Maybe it’s at an airport, or maybe it’s just down the block. There’s one day etched in your memory as the day you realized it. That one day when the years of worrying about you and all the other things that crossed the lives of your parents are etched in their faces and pulled out the thinning strands of their hair. One day, your parents suddenly look old.

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Sen. Dean Barkley

We have a Senate race in Minnesota that’s gotten rather dirty. No one in another state will be surprised by this, but we like to think that we’re better than this up here. We’re not. We’re human. And we have a lot of money coming in from the outside to make it all just as nasty as … as anywhere else.

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