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In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
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It's made me a very happy man ever since.
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At work, doing what I do best.
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