today you helped me vote (you pushed one of the buttons and helped me pull the lever).

It’s so important, Peanut. I know someimes it’s easy to feel like “what’s the point?” I’m only one person… one voice. But if we don’t get involved to make the world a better place in every way we can, it’s not likely we will see the change we care about.

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Can you believe it? The democrats took back Congress!! And we have our first woman speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi! And the secretary of defense, Rumsfeld, stepped down! There is reason to hope, Baby Girl!