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As a child of immigrant parents, I deeply resonated with this article. I hold a reverence, perhaps almost naively, of American institutions and values. I believe that this is why America is a great country, one that allows people to be free and prosperous, and yet doesn’t descend into chaos because of a strong shared belief in those values.

For me, this was what hurt the most about 2016 election. That day, we elected a man that I felt was the antithesis of these values, indeed a man that I thought was the opposite of a decent human being, to lead this great country. I didn’t realize how much the *idea* of America meant to me until that day

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