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Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:00 AM

I'm grateful for Barack Obama

My sappy Thanksgiving post got more serious as I watched the Mumbai tragedy unfold.

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  • Wednesday, November 26, 2008 07:45 PM

    For (I prefer to "@") New Yorker

    Simple thank-yous.

    Me, I'm having a hard time this night before ?Thanksgiving?. "Alone" (but no that doesn't necessarily mean lonely & etc.); trying to keep up with this ... vanishingly small? frighteningly (for me) fast quick-and-immediate world.

    In the money crunch I'm even in arrears as to my membership status here at Salon, and have to type a whole lot of more words and acronyms even to be able to say anything back to anyone.

    "New Yorker" (as a currently "Pacific West Coast" somewhat involuntary [inadvertent?] expatriate) I just want to thank you ... this small moment in ?larger time? ... for your post.

    Thank you, "New Yorker", and thank you everyone at Salon.com -- for helping this one sole and solitary (do NOT, please, read as soggy and weepy ... which I try not to be!!) longtime Salon.com reader

    salonmarte

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