Rain of The Red Ones

Rain of The Red Ones.
Short Story  By Nicola Grobe
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Chapter 1: Facts, Reality and non fiction.
(Resources from Internet; local news reports; NRDC, >Sounding the Depths II, the Rising Toll of Sonar, Shipping and Industrial Ocean Noise on Marine Life<, Michael Jasny, Joel Reynolds, Cara Horowitz, Andrew Wetzler. November, 2005. This research paper is free to download; Sea Shepherd; Rick O'Barry; Sara Wan; Ingrid Newkirk)

Active sonar. Weapon industry. Whale slaughter. Dolphin slaughter in Japan. Slaughter in fur farms. Baby seal slaughter. Clearcutting the old growth Redwoodforest. Clearcutting in the Amazon Rainforest. Homelessness of dogs, cats and humans. Nicola has always been so angry that she felt totally helpless. "What can I do?", Paul: "Stop listening to Esther Hicks, Mada and the guy with the big words" Nicola: "Rodney Smith". Paul: "Yes". Nicola laughed. Paul: "Stop being brainwashed by those gurus". Nicola: "I'm not brainwashed. I think for myself. Those are philosophers". Paul: "They just want your money. They have no conscience. They want to brainwash you." Nicola tested a few gurus with her ethics test. Her standard question is "do you view animals as equal to humans?". She tested Rodney Smith, the guy with the big 5 dollar words and his staff by asking them whether they would run after a puppy dog who had run into a busy street, to bring him back to safety just as much as they would run after a little girl. Rodney Smith could not be bothered but a staff member answered the question by evading the question. So the answer was a definite "No". And yes, even Buddhists can be speciecists. Esther Hicks, the Oneness Movement, and some Indian Hindu gurus on YouTube failed Nicola's ethics test through either the silent treatment or evasion. Only very few people, one guy from the Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism passed the test and one Theravada Buddhist passed the test as well and most atheists pass the test. And of course the Superhumans from Friedrich Nietzsche all pass the ethics test. This is a loose estimate of about 1% of humanity, maybe less.
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During the summer of 2011 a Gray Whale mother and her baby swam into the Klamath River in Klamath, California. At that time the US Navy had been conducting their warfare exercises off the California, Oregon and Washington coast within the North West Training Range Complex which spans from Washington State to San Francisco within the coastal zone. Major protests from environmentalists at the Arcata court house were brushed off like dust on the wall, even though massive amounts of caring people were standing inside as well as outside of the court house.
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The whales were on their migration path from Baja California (where she gave birth to the baby) towards Alaska. Whales usually don't swim into rivers because they know that they can become stranded in them, they know that the water in the rivers is fresh water, Gray Whales need to be in salt water, and they can't find enough food in rivers. Gray Whales have baleen mats instead of teeth and they scoop up mud from the ocean ground which contains tiny shrimp type of animals. Gray Whales do not eat salmon. Nicola's only explanation in regards to why the whales swam into the river is that they had to escape from the active sonar tests conducted by the US Navy.
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The same situation happened in the 80s during the George H. Walker Bush administration when he gave the US Navy permission to test active sonar off the California coast, and during those first tests a mother and her baby coming from Baja had swum into the Klamath river to get away from the active sonar. During the Clinton administration Bill Clinton and Al Gore stopped all active sonar tests and deployment. George W. Bush cancelled Bill Clinton's and Al Gore's moratorium on the deployment of high intensity active sonar and the whales began to beach themselves again. Post mortem examinations revealed that the whales had hemorrhaging in ears and lungs which is the indication that they died from the US Navy's high intensity active sonar warfare tests.
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Nicola, Kenny and Paul drove to Klamath to see the whale for the first time. They stopped at a lookout on Klamath Beach Road to look at the whales through their binoculars. There were about 10 visitors looking at the whales. The mood was negative and Nicola wondered why. The people seemed angry and depressed. They parked at one end of the lookout at the side of the road. Nicola stayed with Kenny in the car while Paul went over to the other side where people were watching the whales. He told a lady about the US Navy warfare exercises. While Nicola was waiting in the car she felt uneasy about handing out her flyers in regards to the active sonar. When Paul talked to the lady on the other side, a fat guy, about 60 years old, with a deep red face from drinking rushed over to Paul and yelled at him "this is a good country and the US Navy would never do anything wrong, I work for them as a contractor and I know all about the sonar". Paul said "then can you tell us what active sonar is?" the guy did not know what to say, Paul said: "if you work for the US Navy then you are not even allowed to talk about this in public". The guy was so mad at Paul that he walked over to his van kicking karate movements into the air. Paul came back to the car and they watched the whales with their Great Dane Kenny on the leash. It was amazing for them to see whales for the first time in their lives. But they knew that the whales were not relaxed. Nicola had seen videos of Gray Whales in Baja where they give birth and where whale watchers row out in small boats to see them and pet them. In Baja they breathe in long distances, they roll over for the people to let them pet their bellies and they show their babies. In the Klamath River the Gray Whales were breathing much more frequently because of the high stress. A motor boat was driving fast towards the whales. The whales ducked down into the water and got away from the boat. 4 guys in the motor boat were hollering and laughing. In that moment a forest ranger lady drove up, got out of the truck and observed the guys in the motor boat with her binoculars. The guys were pulling their pants down as if they were about to pee in the water. She moved the truck closer to the edge of the lookout in order to use her speakers. But the guys saw the ranger truck and left quickly. The ranger lady left and the guy who yelled at Paul walked towards them kicking karate movements into the air. Kenny barked at him with a deep voice. The guy stopped and turned around walking back to his van still kicking into the air. When Kenny, Paul and Nicola drove past the guy with the red face they saw the guy taking pictures with his zoom lens camera of Paul and the license plate.
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The weapon manufacturers Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other companies are major contracting corporations for the US military designing and manufacturing air planes, weapons and detective devices like active sonar. They make billions of dollars through selling the US Navy or the US military their technologies. They block any effort from people to find alternative and safer solutions because then they would lose the demand for their unsafe technologies and the extra income.
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During the George W. Bush administration the stock market firm Enron had collapsed. Employees had lost their entire life savings. The bookkeeper from the Arthur Anderson firm was ready blow the whistle. The news reported that he had "committed suicide". Did they make him drive far away from his home, sign a farewell letter to his family and then shoot him in the forehead?
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Was the former Secretary of the Navy not willing to allow active sonar anymore because of warnings from scientists that active sonar is brutally killing the whales? Did the hit men make him drive far away from his home, write a farewell letter to his family and then shoot him in the forehead and say it was suicide just like in the other case? Well, its possible because that is how much power money can buy. John D. Rockefeller said it: "Every man has his price". Today its women, too, but that type of greedy funnel vision occurs more frequently with men.
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Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a researcher from the American Cetacean Society said that it was too early for the Gray Whale baby to leave the mother, that the calf had never been to the Arctic feeding grounds, that he probably was still nursing, and that his chances for survival without the mother were slim. But the officials from NOAA did not listen to the scientists. Instead they chased the baby out, and to appease the public they made it sound as if the baby swam out on his own leaving his mother.
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While the whale was in the river only 2 news papers covered this story, one in San Francisco, the city of caring Saint Francis of Assisi and one news paper in Australia! half around the globe. Did the US Navy pay the broadcasting companies not to talk about it in order to prevent people from asking questions about the active sonar? The Gray whale mother was grieving for her baby and it was extremely hard on her immune system. Paul filmed the whale about a week before she died. (You can watch the whale mother on the channel KennyReddwooddforest on YouTube). The salmon fishing season was scheduled for 08-21-2011. The whale was breathing much more frequently than when they first saw her. She was swimming in circles right next to the bridge looking at the people. Paul saw stress in her and an urgency to communicate. In Paul's film one can see her turning to the side and looking at the people on the bridge with one eye. She clearly wanted them to help her. The only way she could have been helped would have been through a crane helicopter carrying her out to sea. This would have been possible if companies had been willing to donate their machines, time and volunteer work.
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People have witnessed how NOAA and the Yurok Tribe were harassing the whale mother with Orca sounds and other harsh and very loud sounds like explosions. Nicola and Paul tried to stop them through plea letters but the officials did not listen to any plea letters. Scientists warned that if they did not leave the whale alone that her immune function would stop and that she would die. But the officials did not listen.
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On Monday 08-15-2011 the whale "behaved oddly" according to Jim Milbury of NOAA. Photographer Ashala Tylor who had been taking pictures of the whale for weeks reported that she saw the whale alive on Monday night through Tuesday morning: "I stayed until about 2 a.m. this morning and she was swimming around the bridge," Tylor said. "When I came back this morning she was on her side as dead as can be. I was shocked when I saw her." The Gray whale mother died on Tuesday 08-16-2011 at 4:19 am lying stranded on a sand bank in the river and with the whale was Dr. Dawn Goley. What happened in those 2 hours? What did Dr. Goley do to the whale?
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Sarah Wilkin, NOAA coordinator, said that the whale had normal body fat and that she had not starved to death. Her skin was stressed and had no barnacles on it due to the fresh water. They did not know the reason for her death. The Yurok tribe wanted the whales out because of the fishing season. Why was NOAA involved with the harassment? Where they ordered by the US Navy to chase the whale out with any means possible including brutal force? Where the US Navy trying to prevent too many people from asking questions regarding the reason for the whales being in the river? Did the people involved deliberately murder the whale?
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Even though some people have harassed Gray Whales throughout history, chased them, caused them stress and butchered them, the Gray Whales still gave us humans their minds trying to communicate with us, they gave us their bodies to pet them trusting us, and they sent us huge hearts through their unconditional love for all beings and the planet.
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The greatest of Nietzsche's Superhumans cares deeply about all animals and has saved the whales since the 60s. Without him and the other activists there would not have been any more Gray whales in the 90s, and many other whale species would also have been extinct. His name is Paul Watson. He has covered baby seals in Newfoundland using his own body as a living shield to protect them from being butchered by seal hunters. He almost died from the wounds of being cut.

Because of the activists' work many ocean animals can enjoy their lives and humans still have the chance to pet whales in Baja California today. Nicola loves Paul Watson. She is deeply grateful for him being on planet Earth and she is deeply grateful for Ingrid Newkirk, Dan Matthews, Paul McCartney and many others to be here.
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Time went by and Nicola was doing her office chair activism as usual writing letters to legislators. One percent positive news and 99 percent barbaric news was thundering down every single day on the Internet and into her nervous system. From the one percent positive news were a few victories reported: IFAW were able with all of the help from activists like Nicola and Paul, office chair activists who write letters and sign petitions, yes that includes online petitions, to implement a ban against bear hunting in Russia. Vladimir Putin has a Beluga Whale rescue organization. Chaining dogs was now against the law in California. Shark fin trade was banned in California. Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd chased the Japanese whale hunters out of the Antarctic for several months saving thousands of whales.
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99% barbaric news: The Japanese whale hunters recruited with the help of the Japanese government and military. A dog in Nicaragua was deliberately starved to death by an artist from Costa Rica for his art exhibit in 2008. The same gallery invited the artist to do the same exhibit again with another dog! Nicola and Paul signed the petition and made a video for others to sign as well. Nicola was hoping that many other people would be signing this important petition and would get the gallery to stop this exhibit. She had never seen anything as cruel as this in her whole life. This was so horrendous, horrific and sadistic that she cried for months. How can a person have such coldness in his brain? He must have a deformed brain where the part for empathy is missing. Is it the amygdala that is missing all together, or the cerebellum? This man is a mental cripple and should not exist. The gallery visitors stood around the dog who was skin and bones. They were standing right next to the dog with glasses of champagne in their hands laughing and chatting as if the dog was a stuffed animal. Nobody cared. Nobody said anything. Nobody seemed concerned for the dog. Nicola's anger grew day in and day out. When she talked about injustice people stopped talking to her because they hated her for being politically incorrect. Her neighbor even tried to sue her for having drawn a wire across a hole in the fence and all that because Nicola voted for Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama. Nicola did research and nobody believed her, even Derrick Jensen and his fans looked down on Nicola at the library for not being conform with pop politics. Nicola cried. Nicola hosted the whale event and the Democrats who had invited themselves, bossied her around at her own event. Nicola helped Donna Westfall with the recall, sewer and anti fluoride campaign. The people with the special interest and conflict of interest made disgusting and hostile slander cartoons on the Internet agains Donna, and the whole community bought into it without asking even one single question. People threw hate at Nicola for standing up for Donna. A newspaper lady got mad at Nicola when Nicola criticized one of their news reporters. Nicola talked to people on YouTube about Friedrich Nietzsche and people hated her because she corrected the misunderstandings about him. Nicola is hated, rejected, laughed about, insulted, commanded around, controlled, and given the silent treatment. Nicola has only a handful of friends. But they are very good friends. Better good friends than many bad ones. Nicola is lonely, afraid of the dark, and goes to bed with Zarathustra, a teacher in a fairy tale.
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Chapter 2, Fiction.
On December 21, 2012 Nicola, Paul and Kenny walked out into the garden. Nicola: "Its raining red capsules". One is blue. The capsules were everywhere. Nicola and Paul were amazed. Nicola: "I wonder what that is. Could it be that the US Navy is conducting a test on land as well?" Paul: "I don't know. Someone must have thrown those capsules from an air plane. Maybe Rosalind Peterson knows more about it". Nicola picked up the blue capsule and inspected it. She tried to pry it apart but it did not have two parts, it was all one part without any opening. The stuff inside looked like dry powder. Nicola wondered about what to do with it. Paul listened to the radio. A breaking news reporter talked about the capsules. Those capsules were everywhere, all over the world and they were all red. Nicola had a blue one. She brought the blue capsule into the kitchen and laid it into a cup of water to sit there over night.
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When she went to the kitchen to drink a cup of water at early dusk she encountered the Blue God. He was right there in the kitchen. He was huge like a truck and he bent around the corners. He was made out of a light blue jello material and looked exactly like Nicola's art work with the eyes sticking out at the sides of his rectangular head. He was shaped like a soy milk carton in a rectangular cubic form, he had four legs like a dog, but the legs were also cubic and were sticking together and forming an entire cube like form. Only when he moved the legs one could see how they moved apart like a clay sculpture which moves his legs, but they would snap back into place after moving, making smacking sounds. Even the toes were cubic and did the same movement as the legs did. The Blue God was looking right into Nicola's eyes, her knees became wobbly and she fell down to the ground. She wasn't able to say anthing, no scream, no word, no sound. She just looked at the Blue God in shock. The Blue God said to her: "You wished for us to come to planet Earth. Here we are. What do you want us to do next?" Nicola could not say anything, she sat on the ground with her mouth open. After a while Nicola got up and walked up to the Blue God and touched him. He felt like Jello. She petted him and he smiled. Nicola said: "I knew that you would come when things get really bad. Are you an extra terrestrial? Are you the Blue God? What are you made of?" Blue God: "Yes, I am an extra terrestrial and I am your Blue God and I am made out of a material that is very flexible, bendable and intelligent". Nicola: "Who are the Red Ones?" Blue God: "They are me, too, but in red, they are my army of love". Nicola: "What is the difference between you and the Red Ones?" Blue God: "There is no difference. We are all the same. I am just here to talk to you in the house as the main communicator and conductor of the operation." Nicola: "What operation?" Blue God: "Whatever you decide to have done". Nicola: "You mean dissolving the people who have no conscience?" Blue God: "Yes". Nicola: "So everything I have dreamed about, all that I have envisioned for years, all of my art work is becoming true?" Blue God: "Yes". Nicola told Paul what happened. "Come to see the Blue God in living art form".
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A huge rain storm broke out. The Red Ones began to grow. They were growing in forests, on lawns and on parking lots. All people were afraid of them. Kenny, Paul and Nicola saw them growing in their garden and every day they grew larger. They all looked like red transparent Jello material, wobbly, jittery pudding material growing into cubic rectangular shapes. After one week of growing they were each the size of a class A motor home. The Blue God had to go outside because of his size and he, too had grown to the size of a class A motor home. The Blue God and the Red Ones were all growing simultaneously to the exact same proportions and size. The Red Ones started to run off into different directions. One literally ran into Nicola, Paul and Kenny but left them as if nothing happened, dry, clean and unstained when they stepped back out of the red jello body. Paul listened to the radio on his headphones. Paul: "They are talking about the Red Ones running. They say that a number of humans have been dissolved by them. I will check this on the Internet, too". Paul went into the house and turned the computer on. Nicola hugged and kissed Kenny to comfort him. He was a bit startled by the red pudding material engulfing all of them, but he was ok. Paul reported from the Google news: "They estimate that a 100 thousand humans are killed. The Red Ones had engulfed them and digested them into fertile Earth soil which they pooped out onto the ground. The news reporter said that chaos had broken loose in large cities, people were screaming on the streets. The reporters have filmed the Red Ones also running into buildings and coming out as if nothing happened. All animals who had been engulfed by the Red Ones had come out of them again safely as if nothing had happened.
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Nicola smiled and thanked the Blue God in the garden. He said to her "if you want to you can dive into me and stay there for a while, it will relax you. Nicola dove into the Blue God and relaxed. Indeed, it was a feeling like good heaviness, like being in a hot spring, like camping in a deep forest, like swimming in the ocean. A feeling of groundedness. She didn't want to come out of the Blue God ever again.
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A week later the news reporters said that Red Ones had run into some buildings and had eaten holes into them. Paul read in the news reports from England that the buildings that had been eaten into were factory farm buildings, fur farm buildings, and animal testing laboratories. Interesting. A week later the news reporters said that thousands of Red Ones had created circles around the nuclear power stations and around nuclear weapons in military facilities. The Red Ones were now creating walls of themselves with more of them climbing on top of the lower ones so that they created a large wall around those nuclear areas. They showed in film footage how the Red Ones created an entire cap over those facilities and all of the sudden they let themselves plunge down into the nuclear facilities and eat everything they came in contact with. Inside the Red Ones one could see material being digested into a syrup. When everything, the entire nuclear power stations and the nuclear weapons were eaten up, the Red Ones lied there resting and pooping their syrups out into the flat land space supplying the desert areas and the former cemented areas with fertile Earth soil for growing wonderful vegetables for all animals and for those humans who have compassion.
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This frenzy of running and digesting kept going on and on for weeks and months. A lot was to digest and the Red Ones were very busy and hard working. In 5 months very few news reporters were still on the air reporting what was happening. Bill Moyers was announcing that the entire staff of several news companies had been digested including Fox News, Alex Jones and Jason Bermas. Barbara Walters was still there, Glen Ifill was still there, Howard Stern the radio host and his friend Robin were still there. The other Howard Stern (the former lawyer of Anna Nicole Smith), he was digested). Larry Elder was still there, the children of Barack Obama were still there, the Clintons were still there, Al Gore was still there, Senator Dennis Kucinich was still there, Senator Dean Florez was still there, and many others who care deeply.
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In Christian City only one city council member was still there and that was Donna Westfall. The other council members had all been digested. The entire building of Christian City's Republican's newspaper company The Daily Shitlicate had a brown goo on the floor. The grant writer of a local environmental group, the lady who had made a toxic deal with governmental officials, also had left a goo behind that was safe and free of pesticides. Only 20 humans in Christian City, California, were still alive.
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Nicola said to Paul: "I remember saying to Lana >wouldn't it be nice if we could leave the window open at night during the summer months to get oxygen and not worry about the boogeyman in form of a hudlum, someone from the Moose Lodge thinking we are Moose, or any fundamentalist Christian who hates nature lovers, to break in? I dream of a time when we can go to bed and really relax and trust other humans. I wish that day will come.< Now this very day had come. My Blue God answered my prayer to him. It will take some of us a while until we don't jump at each sound at night anymore, but we will get there. Healing takes time."
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Chapter 3, Logical Solutions in reality.
Hehe, well its now 2013 to the very disappointment of the Christian conspiracy theorists, nothing happened, no Rain of the Red Ones happened, no holocaust, no nuclear bombs, no Armageddon.

So far I have only talked about the real life problems and the non real life wishes. Chapter 3 is about a brainstorming together with you, the reader on how to solve our problems. Chapter 2 was actually, if I am really honest with myself, just another war message. What I learned from Jiddu Krishnamurti is that war, pesticides, and any type of eradication including surgeries, offending anybody, accusations, war stories, etc., are not the real solution to solving our daily problems. It might be nice to "delete" some folks, but how do the folks feel if they read this? It will not make them feel much better about themselves and they will lean more and more into their >criminal out of lost respect dilemma< which is an old feeling from their childhood already. It doesn't empower anybody and just makes things worse. (An angry publisher from New York sent me a reply to this short story saying "we have no use for your story." Many other publishers just didn't say anything. :0))

Nobody has really made himself the way he is, we come to this planet in a very specific schematic which is our DNA, our development during gestation, and the nurture or lack of nurture we have experienced during gestation and during our life time and particularly the time from conception to age 3 years which sets the foundation for our whole life's development.

However we do have a range of free will, decision making and responsibility to make the best out of our lives. It is hard when there is too much anger, when we are confused, brainwashed or overwhelmed. But it is possible to make the best out of our lives even with lots of pain. How do we calm our brains down to the level where we can think more clearly and will make the right decisions?

More and more humans are in the process of clearing up their mental baggage through therapy, meditation, lots of sleep, petting animals, drinking herbal teas instead of taking Prozac, and lots of reading. Many of them have written their own books. Many of them have opened up medition centers. Many of them are giving presentations. If we focus our minds on those people who have a lot to say about healing our wounds, then we will eventually heal ourselves. More people heal themselves and will then be able to help others heal themselves as well. Its a positive snow ball effect. Lets do this.

Here is a list of teachers who have helped me a lot, I am certain that they will help you as well: Jiddu Krishnamurti and The Buddha, Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, Jack Kornfield, Adyashanti, Mooji, Gangaji, Andrew Olendzki, Dr. Charles Grob, Robert Velez, Dr. David Bohm, UG Krishnamurti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dr. Arthur Janov, Dr. France Janov, Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, Dr. Frederick Leboyer, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Esther Hicks, Darryl Anka, Don Miguel Ruiz and many more including the teachers which can be good situations, bad situations and even persons offering adversity. Once you read those author's books you will also come across all of the other teachers. Every single person has lots to contribute to our never ending learning process.
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