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Two Hundred and Fifty

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Once we had ventured far enough into America to no longer be anywhere near the mood-lit wine bars and overrun coffee shops of North Brooklyn, where I live, secession began to strike me as not only possible but inevitable, as if it were only a matter of time before we all realize this Union is a house too tenuous, inharmonious, and ill-defined to remain standing, and act accordingly. From state to state, there is such variation in accents, languages spoken, climat

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