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Deb Haaland: “I have experienced it. I have helped my daughter through it.”

On the recordJuly 15, 2020
I have experienced it. I have helped my daughter through it.
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Deb Haaland
Democratic · New Mexico

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Haaland shares her personal experience with generational trauma.

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