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RecoveringJournalist

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16. Really?

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 01:10 PM

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This is the road on which you choose to travel? Really? I'm an educated Indiana native and bleed smurf blue. Yes, Eva Braun's cousin twice removed may indeed be our governor. And yes, the state generally runs Soviet era red. But we're not all rednecks. Think before you post, please.

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