I'd always tell you where I stood. (Applause.) And, most of all, I would wake up every single day thinking about you, thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better. (Applause.) Because in you I see my own life, and everything that my parents and grandparents struggled for.

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The riverside duo stood arm in arm, pointing east, where I was heading.

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