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This is excellent.

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Thanks. Lots of good writers and interesting people and thinkers on this platform. My niche is foreign service type stories and seeing current events through a foreign service lens. Douglass was a polymath, usually spoken of as a diplomat only in connection with his official role in Haiti. But he was much more of a diplomat than that. Keep up the interesting work.

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Beautifully written and deeply insightful piece; engaging and educational as well.

Many thanks Alexis.

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Thanks for that Ken. One ambition I have is to write in a readable way. So I appreciate your comment. Feel free to share; I'm hoping that young people considering a foreign service/international affairs/government-type career of the kind you and I have had will find some of these stories, reflections and comments interesting. Thanks again.

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