meant to him that such powerful people showed his daughter so much kindness. This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for someone like him, and he apologized for acting as if he were meeting his favorite celebrity, and for not dressing in fancier clothes. He worked a night shift and had wanted to skip the rally, but his daughter had begged him to go. He laughed and showed me the dirt under his fingernails. “You must be so fed up having to put up with folks like us, telling us how grateful you are for our support,” he said. “But you’ll never understand how you just changed my little girl’s
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