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Barack Obama: Nothing I say can fill the hole they leave in your hearts; the absence they leave in your lives.

On the recordApril 24, 2010
Nothing I say can fill the hole they leave in your hearts; the absence they leave in your lives.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release: Remarks of President Barack Obama - Eulogy for Coal Miners in Beckley

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