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Love as the Practice of Freedom


"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against

oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to

act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love

as the practice of freedom."
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Dr. Kaleb Rashad
Educator | Designer | Fugitive |  Emerging Farmer | Revolutionary Buddhist 

Injustice was designed from the beginning. America has been determined to sustain a culture of white supremacy through its legacy of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, racial caste, patriarchy, and economic & political deprivation. Situated in a culture of abject denialism, our nation's schools have remained largely the same, in form, function and outcomes, since 1895--in the contxt of Plessy v. Ferguson, the eugenics movement, mass lynchings, and Birth of Nation being previewed in the White House. We're drowning in the waters of white supremacy & the distorted moral narrative of color-blindess, and we miust move unapologetically, without reservation toward the shores of justice--and it starts with the reconstruction of our schools, centering love & justice. 

Creating liberatory schools, and liberatory adult communities, is necessary to begin to finally right this wrong. All students should learn to read their world, resist all forms of oppression and reclaim their ancestral birthrights: to be here, to feel and act, to speak truth to power, to love and know thyself, and have standing in their community. 

We design for justice.
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Dr. Kaleb Rashad,
​Creative Director | Co-Founder Center for Love & Justice at HTH Graduate School of Education | Former Director of the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs @hightechhigh | Unlocked, Inc Co-Founder | Doctorate in Educational Leadership: focusing on Relational ​Trust & Organizational Change | He/His She/Hers | Spiritually Undefined | Learning alongside homies at National Equity Project, Stanford d. School K-12 Lab, and IDEO. 

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Research
My dissertation research focused how Relational Trust is created among teachers and principals. My belief in human-centered design is deeply rooted in the research findings.  


Creative Strengths
Visionary: Imaging the Impossible-->Full of big ideas, ability to see potential and possibilities everywhere


StrengthsFinder 2.0 (latest go round, 2019)
Maximizer | Empathy | Strategic | Connectedness | Developer


StrengthsFinder 2.0 (used to be)
Positivity | Relator | Empathy | Communication | Woo


16Personalities:
ENFP-A "The Campaigner"

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Ancestral Connections
Origins: Descendant of the Yoruba People, West Africa:Cameroon/Congo | Ivory Coast/Ghana | Mali then Southeast United States 

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​​Recent Engagements & Contributions

• Diàleg Educatiu: Innovació per a la transformació, Closing Dialogue Session with Eduard Vallory, hosted by Umanresa & Fòrum Futurs de Educació, November 2022
• Institute for Radical Permission, Participant | Summer 2022 hosted by Sonya Renee Taylor & adrienne maree brown 
• Toward Deeper Learning, Presenter | Speaker, 2021-2022, Fraser Valley | Metro Vancouver, BC hosted by ALPS
• CISC 2022: LIBERATE | Our Voice | Our Time, Keynote Speaker, February 2022, Monterey, CA hosted by Monterey County Office of Education  
• Presenter, Gates Foundation NSI: Community of Practice, October 2021, Virtual 
• Leadership Journeys MC with DJ Mickey Breeze & Carlos Moreno hosted by Big Picture Learning, August 2021, ASU GSV
• Deeper Learning Symposium, Keynote & Presenter, hosted by Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY, August 2021
• Virginia School Consortium for Learning (VaSCL) Student Leadership Conference Keynote with 230+ High School Students: Joy & Justice, March 2021 
• PolyVocal Keynote, City Neighbor's 10th Annual Progressive Education Summit, with Dr. Jal Mehta & Dr. Crystal Laura, January 2021
• Keynote, Catholic Educator Conference 2021 Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese, February 2021
• Equity in Education Keynote, Fielding International, with Karla Vigil, January 2021
• Keynote & Workshop, New Tech Network, Deeper Learning & Social Justice, October 2020
• Keynote, New School Venture Fund, Community of Practice: Model Design in the Midst of Dual Pandemics, October 2020
• Presenter, IDEO's Teacher's Guild: A Virtual Summer Experience: It's Starts with Schools," Summer 2020
• Keynote Panelist, A New Way Forward Summit, "Building a Learner-Centered Future," Spring 2020
• Guest Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, "Futuristic Leadership" Spring 2020
• Virginia is For Learners Innovation Network (#VaLIN), Advisor 2020, in partnership with Virginia Department of Education, James Madison University, Virginia School Consortium for Learning, Edu21C Foundation and Jobs for the Future
• IDEO Design Council, San Francisco, 2019
• "Design Thinking for Education Leaders" Advisor, Hong Kong 2019-2020, in partnership with HK Centre for Design, HK University & Future Impact Lab
• LTE--Learning & Teaching Expo Panelist: From Teacher to Student Centered Learning, Hong Kong, 2019
• Interim Director, New School Creation Fellowship, 2019-2020
• #DesignCampMonterey, Monterey County Office of Education, Salinas, CA 2019
• #DesignCampStLouis, Lindbergh Schools, St. Louis, MO 2019
• Program Design with Monterey County Office of Education, Salinas, CA 2019 #TLCMonterey
• Hewlett: District-Community Partnerships for Learner-Centered Education, District Coach and Presenter, San Diego, CA 2019
• Creative Summer Institute Guest Speaker, Teacher's Guild + IDEO, San Francisco 2019
• Hopewell City Public Schools, Admin Leadership Retreat 2019 Facilitator: Leading for Equity, Innovation and Deeper Learning, Virginia 2019
• Steam Conference Barcelona, Keynote Speaker, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona 2019 
• Unleashed! Empowered by Design, Distinguished Speaker, Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong 2019
• Keynote Speaker with Andrew G. and YahYah, Chicago, IL 2018, hosted by Glenbard High School
• #DesignCampBC with the AWESOME Dr. Chagala, Vancouver, BC 2018, hosted by Thomas Haney Secondary School
• PBL World Keynote with two AH-MAZING students, Blake D. and Zelma D.: Love + Justice, Napa, CA 2018 
• Design 4 San Diego (DS$D) at UCSD Design Lab, San Diego, CA 2018
• #DesignCamp Co-Creator (with the AWESOME Dr. Chagala!!), San Diego, CA 2016-2018: DesignCamp2018
• Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC), Advisory Council, 2018
• VA ASCD Keynote Speaker: Love + Disruption, Williamsburg, VA 2017
• ShiftEDU Keynote and Facilitator: Love + Disruption II and School ReTool Hack-a-Thon, Miami, FL 2017
• Edleader21 Co-Facilitator: The Power of Human-Centered Design, with Eric Chagala, Atlanta, GA 2017
• School Retool Co-Presenter, Hactivation Nation: Hacking Toward Equity, with Susie Wise + Marthaa Torres, Stanford d. School, CA 2017
• School Retool Coach, Hactivation Nation: Student Exhibition of Learning, Stanford d.School, CA 2017
• Leadership + Design Facilitator, 4D Studio: Design. Disrupt. Dare. Dream. Richmond, VA 2017
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund Panelist, Deeper Learning Convening, Washington, DC, 2017
• Leadership + Design Member, Board of Directors, 2017
• #DesignCampBC Kickoff Co-Presenter, Vancouver, BC, Winter 2017 with Eric Chagala
• NSF Advisory Board for Classrooms as Enterprises: Improving STEM Education Through Authentic Entrepreneurship Experiences, 2017-present
• School Retool: San Diego Coach & Instigator, Winter 2017
• Innovation of Diffusion Cluster Grantee Meet Up (Hewlett + IDEO + Stanford d.School), 2016 to Present
• SXSWedu 2017 Presenter, Austin, TX: "Design + Leadership" with Ela Ben Ur and Eric Chagala
• ​MVIFI: A Night of Inquiry, Impact and Innovation Speaker, Atlanta, GA: "Love + Disruption"
• Real World Scholars Advisory Board, 2016-present
• The Buck Institute for Education (BIE): High Quality PBL Steering Committee, Present
• Deeper Learning Leadership Forum (Hewlett Foundation & National Equity Project), 2015-2017
• NeverSummer's edOS: A New Operating System for Education, Denver, CO: "Bringing PBL to School/Integrating Design Thinking" June 2016
• SxSwEdu 2016, Austin, TX: "Creating a Culture of Innovation" 
• FutureNOW Conference, San Diego, CA: “PBL 102: Teaching Innovation via PBL" 2016
• DesignForward San Diego Presenter: "Scaling Design Thinking in Schools" 2016

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Badassery on the Bookshelf

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Pedagogy
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1. ​An Ethic of Excellence​​
2. The Book of Learning and Forgetting
3. ​Changing the Subject
4. Child and Curriculum 
5. Creative Schools
6. Cultivating Genius
7. Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit
8. Decolonizing Methodologies, 2nd Ed.
9. Educating for Eco-Justice and Community​​
10. Education and Experience
11. Everyday AntiRacism 
12. ​The Education of Black People
13. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
14. ​The Education of the Negro
15. ​Feel-Bad Education
16. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and The Rest of Y'all Too
17. ​Fugitive Pedagogy 
18. Ghosts in the Schoolyard
19. Highlander: No Ordinary School
20. Hip Hop Genius
21. History of Black Studies 
22. Invent to Learn
23. Learner-Centered Innovation
24. ​Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
25. ​Make 
26. The MisEducation of the Negro
27. Most Likely to Succeed
28. Multiplication is for White People" Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
29. The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change
30. Out of Our Minds
31. On Critical Pedagogy
32. Pedagogy of Critical Consciousness
33. ​Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage 
34. Pedagogy of Heart
35. Pedagogy of Hope​
36. Pedagogy of Indignation 
37. ​Pedagogy of the Oppressed
38. ​Plantation Pedagogy 
39. ​The Power of Place​
40. Punished by Rewards
41. The Push for African-Centered Education
42. Race, Culture, and the City
43. Ratchatdemic: Reimagining Academic Success 
44. Seed + Spark
45. ​Schooling Beyond Measure
46. Schooling for Critical Consciousness
47. Teachers as Intellectuals
48. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 
49. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
50. Teaching to Transgress 
51. We Make the Road by Walking
52. ​We Want To Do More Than Survive
53. When Black Students Excel: How Schools Can Engage and Empower Black Students 

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Change Leadership

1. 13 Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis 
2. The 4 Pivots
3. Adaptive Leadership
4. The Adaptive School
5. The Achievement Habit
6. A More Beautiful Question
7. The Art of Gathering
8. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
9. Brainstorm
10. ​Bringing Innovation to School
11. Change Leadership
12. Creating Innovators
13. Creativity: The Perfect Crime
14. ​​Design Leadership
15. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
16. Dialogue
17. Disrupting Class
18. ​​#Edjourney
19. ​Emergent Strategy
20. The End of Average
21. The Field Guide to Human Centered Design
22. ​Five Minds for the Future
23. Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
24. ​The Fourth Industrial Revolution
25. Holding Change
26. How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
27. Immunity to Change
28. Inner Work of Racial Justice
29. Ingenius
30. The Innovator's Dilemma
31. The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education
32. Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
33. Little Bets
34. The Magic of Conflict
35. Needfinding: Design Research and Planning
36. The Rise of the Creative Class
37. Rise of the DEO
38. Rise of the Robots
39. Schools on Trial
40. Six Secrets of Change
41. Start with Why
42. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
43. The Storyteller’s Secret
44. The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
45. The Third Industrial Revolution
46. Tribal Leadership
47. Who Do We Choose to Be?
48. A Whole New Mind
49. Wired to Care

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Historical Perspectives

1. S Book of the Beginnings 
2. Adventures of An African Slaver 
3. African Heroes and Heroines 
4. African Myths and Folk Tales 
5. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality 
6. American Apartheid
7. ​American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
8. American Slavery As It Is
9. An American Genocide: The US and California Indian Catastrophe 
10. Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World 
11. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
12. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
13. Black Majority
14. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
15. ​The Black Tax
16. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World 1471 to the Second World War 
17. Caste
18. The Chronicle of the Discovery of and Conquest of New Guinea
19. Collective Courage
20. The Colonizer and the Colonized
21. Color of Law
22. The Columbian Orator
23. Critical Race Theory
24. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
25. David Walker's Appeal ​
26. The Delectable Negro
    
27. ​The Destruction of Black Civilization
28. Deterrent or Defense 
29. Democracy in America
30. Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
31. The End of White World Supremacy
32. Favorite African Folklore 
33. Frederick Douglass
34. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai'i 
35. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
36. History of the Moorish Empire: In Europe, Vol 1 of 3
37. History of White People
38. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process​
39. It Wasn't About Slavery​
40. Jeanes Teachers: A View Into Black Education in the Jim Crow South
    
41. The Jewish State
42. John Brown: An American Abolitionist 
43. King Leopold's Ghost
44. Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: A Fascinating History from Beginning to End
45. Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City
46. Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy   
47. Moor Vol. I and II
48. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
49. The Negro in Our History 
50. ​Negro Orators & Their Orations
51. The New Jim Crow
52. ​​No Struggle, No Progress
53. Notes of a Native Son
54. Notes on the State of Virginia
55. ​The Peculiar Institution 
56. ​Precolonial Black Africa
57. ​Racism without Racists
58. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks​
59. ​Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
60. Saltwater Slavery
61. SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind
62. ​Segregation by Design
63. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
64. The Story of the Moors in Spain: A History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Their Conquest, Book of Laws and Code of Rites
65. The Souls of Black Folks
66. Southern Slavery & the Law, 1619-1860 (Studies in Legal History) 
67. The Spook Who Sat by the Door  
68. Stamped From The Beginning
69. States from Interviews with Former Slaves
70. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy 
71. Stroud's Slave Laws: A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America 
72. The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation 
73. ​The Sum of Us
74. Team of Rivals 
75. Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts 
76. UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I: Methodology & African Prehistory 
77. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 
78. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
79. White Fragility
80. White Rage
81. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
82. The Willie Lynch Letter & the Making of a Slave
83. Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire​​

Organizational Culture
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1. 10 Faces of Innovation
2. 101 Design Methods
3. An Everyone Culture 
4. Blue Ocean Strategy
5. ​Building a Storybrand
6. Change by Design
7. ​Chief Joy Officer
8. Collective Genius
9. Creative Acts for Courageous People
10. ​​Creative Confidence
11. Creativity, Inc.
12. The Culture Cod
13. Emotional Design
14. Designing for Belonging 
15. ​​Designing for Growth: A Toolkit for Managers
16. Design Sprint
17. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
18. ​Design Thinking for the Greater Good
19. Deviate
20. Drive
21. ​Firms of Endearment
22. Good People
23. How Google Works
24. This is Marketing
25. ​​​The Innovators Mindset
26. The Innovator's Solution
27. The Innovators
28. Let the Elephants Run
29. ​Launch
30. Linchpin
31. The Little Book of Innovation
32. ​The One Thing
33. Open
34. Orbiting the Giant Hairball
35. The Purpose Economy 
36. Radical Candor
37. ​Rituals for Work
38. ​Show Your Work
39. Six Secrets of Change 
40. The Sketchbook Handbook
41. Solving Problems with Design Thinking
42. Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration 
43. Split Screen Strategy: Improvement + Innovation
44. Steal Like an Artist
45. Strengths Finder 2.0
46. ​​Superbetter
47. ​The Talent Code
48. ​​​ThinkWrong
49. Time, Talent, and Energy 
50. ​Unleashed
51. Work Rules! ​  
52. Zig Zag​

Philosophy (Love, Justice, Liberation) 
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1. 7 Years
2. Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement 
3. African Philosophy 
4. The Afrocentric Manifesto 
   
5. The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom: Connecting Culture to Learning 
6. All About Love
7. ​The Alchemist
8. The Art of War
9. An Invitation to Freedom
10. ​A Promised Land
11. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
12. Another Country
13. Autobiography of Malcolm X
14. ​Becoming 
15. Becoming Human
16. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
17. Begin Again
18. Belonging: A Culture of Place
19. ​Between the World and Me
20. The Black Jacobins
21. ​Black Lives Matter Story
22. Black Movements in America
23. ​Black Marxism
24. ​Black Noise
25. Black Prophetic Fire
26. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
27. Black Skin, White Masks
28. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
29. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
30. Blues People
31. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
32. ​The Burning House
33. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
34. Civil Disobedience
35. The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning: Five Essentials of Equity 
36. The Colored Conventions Movement
37. The Courage to Be
38. ​Culture & Resistance
39. Creative Quest
40. Decolonization and the Decolonized 
41. Decolonizing the Mind
42. Decolonizing Wealth 
43. Democracy Matters
44. ​Design Justice 
45. Design the Life You Love
46. ​Detours
47. The Devil You Know
48. ​Dignity of Difference
49. Ella Baker 
50. Eloquent Rage
51. ​​Farming While Black
52. ​Finding the Mother Tree
53. The Fire Next Time
54. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
55. Freedom Dreams
56. Freedom Farmers
57. God in Search of Man
58. Guerrilla Warfare
59. Freedom is a Constant Struggle
60. The Healing Wisdom of Africa 
61. Homecoming: Overcome Fear & Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self
62. Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma and Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self 
63. ​How to Be An AntiRacist
64. ​Identity & Violence
65. ​Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
66. Inner Engineering 
67. The Inner Work of Racial Justice
68. Inward
69. An Invitation to Freedom
70. ​Just Mercy
71. The Healing Wisdom of Africa
72. ​Leaves of Grass
73. ​Leonardo Da Vinci
74. ​​Love Does
75. Maat Guiding Principles of Moral Living 
76. ​The Market Gardner
77. MDW NTR: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Times of the Pharaoh to the Present  
78. Meditations 
79. Memories, Dreams, & Reflections
80. ​More Than Just Race
81. Opening the Door of Your Heart
82. ​The Ordeal of Mansart
83. Our Word is Our Weapon
84. ​Outlaw Culture
85. Out of Your Mind
86. Plato's Five Dialogues
87. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Pleasure
88. Prophesy Deliverance! 
89. The Power of No
90. The Power of Now
91. Race Matters
92. Radical Dharma 
93. The Radical King
94. Reach for Greatness
95. ​The Road to Unfreedom
96. Salvation: Black People and Love
97. The Solace of Open Spaces
98. So You Want to Talk about Race
99. The Spirit of Intimacy
100. Strength to Love
101. Surrender White People
102. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
103. Tao Te Ching 
104. The Tao of Wu​
105. ​The Third Reconstruction
106. The Trumpet of Conscience 
107. Wages of Rebellion 
108. ​Walking with the Wind
109. The Way of Zen
110. We Are Each Other's Harvest
111. We Do This til it Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice 
112. When God Winks 
113. Where Do We Go From Here
114. Why I am a Buddhist 
115. Why We Can't Wait
116. Why We're Polarized 
117. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
118. The Wisdom of Insecurity
119. Works of Love
120. ​The Wretched of the Earth
121. You're It

Fiction 

1. Beloved 
2. Crime and Punishment 
3. False Memory 
4. Keats: Poems Published in 1820
5. The Man Who Lived Underground
6. The Martian 
7. Notes of a Native Son
8. Phantoms
9. Velocity 
10. War & Peace
11. The Water Dancer

Key Research, Articles, etc. (follow the links) 

1. ABCs of Equity 
2. ​Adaptive Leadership 
3. ​Afrocentric Curriculum
4. ​Antiracist Pedagogy 
5. ​The Case for Reparations 
6. ​The Colonizer and the Colonized 
7. ​Continuum on Becoming an Antiracist, Multicultural Organization
8. Critical Consciousness: A Key to Student Achievement 
9. A Critical Pedagogy of Place
10. ​Critical Race Theory
11. ​Cultivating Aloha 'Aina Through Critical Indigenous Pedagogies of Place
12. ​The Groundwater Approach
13. Enhancing Critical Consciousness in Young African
    American Men: A Psychoeducational Approach
14. ​The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America 
15. ​Lynching in America 
16. Promotion and protection of the human rights and
    fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African
    descent against excessive use of force and other human rights
    violations by law enforcement officers​
17. Reconstruction in America
18. ​Seeing White
19. ​Segregation in America 
20. ​White Supremacy Culture--Still Here​

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