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Recently, I was at a small gathering at a friend’s house, and I was talking to a nice young lady for a while. The conversation was going quite well, and I felt like I was making a new friend. But then, folks, she said something that totally turned it around. It’s something that both shocked and dismayed me, and I want to discuss what happened. You see, we were just going along, talking about things that were going on in the world right now, and then, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, she said, “I don’t know what the big deal is with that Avatar movie. I don’t think I’ll go see it.”

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