The driving force behind Thrift Store Confidential is convincing others, and myself, that there is no shame in downsizing, either by force, choice or circumstance, and that there is a joyful and meaningful life to be had in the margins of what was previously held as the American Dream.

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As an alien robot attempting to master the ways of New Yorkers, Murphy is expectably uproarious, but more than half of his screen time is given over to his straight-man role as the captain, who, along with the rest of his crew, undergoes an emotional awakening upon contact with the joyful irrationality of life on earth.

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"I have had a full and joyful and I hope productive life, and I intend to have other chapters that will meet those same standards, " Graham said at Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, with his wife and daughter at his side.

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We have the choice to be grateful, choosing to be joyful, and seeing the color and light that blesses our life.

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