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This year I was privileged to hear high school graduation speeches and a memorial for a family patriarch within one twenty-four hour period. Graduation and funeral speeches are rarely remembered exactly — we are all too caught up in the moment, moments of them do crystalize across time.   A high school valedictorian at an honors academy gave a speech that made me sad. She seemed to think we are meaningless dust in an uncaring universe and she urged the students to…..

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