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And then I want to
just end tonight

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with one more poem
from Dear America.

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Listen, it's one of the great,
deep, and meaningful pleasures

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of my life to be
part of Team Terrain

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and to be able to call someone
like Simmons Bunton friend.

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And Dear America was the
first very special project

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that I was involved in.

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And it's clear to me
that Tyler understands

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how special Simmons
and Terrain.org is,

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judging by what he said
earlier and how he said it.

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But Simmons is, he's
not just a visionary.

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I mean, there are
other visionaries

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out there, Elon Musk.

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But Simmons has this
just beautiful humanity

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that is part of his vision.

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And not just in starting
Terrain.org, but then

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in leading us.

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He and Alison
Deming really led us

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into this project, the
Letter to America project.

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Julie, it was great to hear you
read those beautiful epistolary

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poems.

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And that was a lot of
the nature of what's

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in this Dear America
letters of habitat,

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hope, defiance, and democracy.

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But in 2016, in
November of 2016,

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Terrain.org evolved
and, for four years,

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collected some of the
most compelling writing,

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works of resistance,
works of resilience,

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and works of togethering.

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I mean, this is equipment,
this book is equipment

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for living in the
kind of culture

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that we have been living
in since that time

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and that we'll be
living in again

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here as we approach
this election.