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The U.S. Olympic Team Is Giving Us Something Worth More Than Gold. It's Giving Us Hope.
It’s just sports, right?
I mean, at the end of the day, it really means nothing.
In the grand scheme of things, this is all pretty inconsequential.
With every horrible thing happening here at home, what a group of strangers does on a slab of ice or a frozen hillside a few thousand miles away doesn’t impact me in the slightest, I know that.
So, why the hell was I crying?
As I watched Alysa Liu, the child of a Chinese dissident, radiant and beaming as she made positively superhuman physical feats look simply effortless, I felt a lump growing in my throat, while tears pooled in my eyes.
Knowing…
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