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On the recordMarch 5, 2012
I often quote the poet Robert Frost, who once admonished us that two roads diverged in the wood, and I picked the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina

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Clyburn reflects on the importance of choices and the people met along the way.

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