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 <h2>An essay on where I live and what I live for.</h2><h2>Music by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org">The Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a>--Come, Come Ye Saints</h2>

































































 

 
 
 

 

 
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