Sarah DessenLike a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.
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If America is a book, then freedom is the word on the page. The words are there, but do they make any sense? Are they even true? Each day, I read that freedom is not free. It costs money. It costs time.
It costs energy. Our freedom is not free. It requires sacrifice, hard work, perseverance, determination, and faith in an ideal.
And it will not come easy or without effort.
Source: Just Listen
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