But I also know that today, with what I know now, I would not make those decisions the same way. That shift didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s tied to how I was raised.
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And it’s on us to defend those basics. Systems don’t protect those by default.
They can erode them too. Our voice is the shield. If we don’t use it, they fade. Slowly. Quietly. Incrementally.
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