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When All You Want to Do is Stop the Clock

It's not easy to celebrate a New Year that promises to be absolutely terrible

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Donna Schwartz Mills
Jan 02, 2025
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Is there anything more optimistic than the promise of fresh beginnings and hope offered by the start of a New Year? I so wish I had felt that way this week. Instead, I wished that I could simply stop the clock and remain in 2024.

The specter of Trump 2.0 dampened whatever sense of celebration I might have had this Tuesday night. The New Year’s Day terror…

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