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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.”

On the recordJuly 11, 2019
Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Highlighting the importance of children as representatives of future generations.

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