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Bluetus

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1. Here's a lesson we can take away.

Reply to QueerDuck (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 12:47 PM

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Try every day to live your life in such a way that when you die, people do not have to struggle mightily to find anything even remotely gracious to say about you.

For example, I rarely appreciated John McCain's politics, but I had no difficulty finding good things to remember about him.

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Here's a lesson we can take away. Bluetus Sunday #1

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