Back then I didn’t know hardly anything. I am ninety years old, and I still don’t know a whole lot. But I do know that the worst thing in this world is the intolerance that leads to so much violence. I have had to put it on the page to draw our attention to it so we would be disgusted by it. The only thing I knew for sure that day was that many circumstances—mostly the actions of those in power—had led to that moment and a million others just like it. Everyone who benefited from devastating the natural world. Everyone who participated in the misinformation and discrimination that led to my
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