{"id":2328069,"date":"2024-08-21T01:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-district-keeps-r-rated-books-in-school-library\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T01:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:43:42","slug":"missouri-district-keeps-r-rated-books-in-school-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-district-keeps-r-rated-books-in-school-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri District Keeps R-Rated Books In School Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-district-keeps-r-rated-books-in-school-library%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2328069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the \u2062controversy surrounding explicit\u200d sexual content in\u2062 the Cameron R-I school district libraries \u2063in Missouri, initiated \u2064by Paula Allen, a concerned parent. After two years of complaints, \u2063the district \u2062decided to restrict access to 36 out\u2062 of 80 challenged\u2063 books to \u2064require parental permission for checkout;\u2063 however, criticism arose as sexually explicit and pornographic materials remain available to minors.<\/p>\n<p>Local parents, including Allen and Heath Gilbert, fought to remove these books from the library, citing concerns over content featuring detailed depictions of sexual acts and queer ideologies. Despite efforts to raise awareness, including posting a list of &#8220;dirty books&#8221; online, the school board and administration\u2062 resist the parents&#8217; \u200ddemands, claiming they are \u2062acting in the interest of the students. <\/p>\n<p>The article describes the findings of Gilbert and another parent who discovered over 60 explicit books, including works like &#8220;All Boys Aren\u2019t Blue&#8221; and &#8220;The Bluest Eye.&#8221; Their complaints led to secretive meetings with the school board,\u2064 which\u2062 ultimately decided to keep the controversial books\u2062 despite public outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are frustrated further by the lack of transparency and limitations placed on their ability to \u200bchallenge library materials. As a means to \u200dappease concerned parents, the district introduced forms allowing parents to specify books their children should not access, yet many feel this does not effectively address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>the situation reflects larger tensions between parental rights, educational authority, and the appropriateness of content accessible to minors in school libraries, with parents arguing that the school\u200b district is undermining their authority over their\u2062 children&#8217;s education.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Note: This article quotes explicit sexual content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Paula Allen first wanted pornography removed from her child&rsquo;s school library, she didn&rsquo;t realize that would be controversial. Everyone, she reasoned, agrees graphic descriptions of sexual intercourse and images of full-frontal nudity found in schools should be immediately removed.<\/p>\n<p>The school board of Missouri&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/ccd\/districtsearch\/district_detail.asp?Search=1&amp;details=1&amp;InstName=cameron&amp;State=29&amp;DistrictType=1&amp;DistrictType=2&amp;DistrictType=3&amp;DistrictType=4&amp;DistrictType=5&amp;DistrictType=6&amp;DistrictType=7&amp;DistrictType=8&amp;DistrictType=9&amp;NumOfStudentsRange=more&amp;NumOfSchoolsRange=more&amp;ID2=2907020\">Cameron R-I district<\/a>, which serves 1,600 students in a suburb of Kansas City, disagreed. After two years of complaints from parents, this August the district put 36 of 80 challenged books behind the circulation desk, where publicly sponsored pornography continues to be available to minors so long as they have parent permission. Any explicit books that parents haven&rsquo;t discovered yet, and future books selected by employees who have already used taxpayer funds to buy minors pornography, could still be on the shelves after the district denied parents library access.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At my very first meeting [with] the superintendent&hellip; I all but begged him, &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s please work together in unity as a group, as parents, we have a concern. You have to address these concerns. Let&rsquo;s work together,&rsquo;&rdquo; Allen explained. &ldquo;[They] attempted to do essentially a character assassination, to discredit us and to make them, as in the school board and the school district administration, look like victims and make us look like villains. Because we&rsquo;re standing up for our kids.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A group of local parents has been battling to protect children in school libraries for more than two years. Allen and Heath Gilbert spoke with The Federalist about their efforts to keep pornographic books out of children&rsquo;s hands and their school board&rsquo;s effort to resist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>&lsquo;Erotica&rsquo; and &lsquo;Intercourse&rsquo; in Children&rsquo;s Library<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Gilbert began looking into the issue in 2020, when sexually explicit library books were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breitbart-news-daily-podcast-ep-19-creativets-and-standing-ones-ground-with-guests-richard-casper-and-james-moore\/\" title=\"Breitbart News Daily Podcast Ep. 19: CreatiVets and Standing One&#039;s Ground with Guests Richard Casper and James Moore\">making national news<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I went to the superintendent&rsquo;s office and asked the question, &lsquo;Hey, how do I get into the library? I&rsquo;d like to look and see what books were there.&rsquo; And I asked the high school the same question,&rsquo;&rdquo; Gilbert told the Federalist. &ldquo;I got the runaround. I never got an answer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert and local father Dan Landi resorted to investigating the matter themselves by January 2023. When high school librarian Tonya O&rsquo;Boyle assured Landi pornographic books were not available to Cameron R-I students, Landi said he used the district&rsquo;s online <a href=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/83719\/bookbag\/LIBRARY:4402e50f8c3093bbb85c0b6f7e1033ea172bb2ef\/details?requestId=954B936C-3D4B-45D8-A2A4-653E63F2313B&amp;selectedTab=ALL&amp;activeMenu=HOME\">library catalog<\/a> to confirm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The results were shocking.&nbsp;Gilbert and Landi say they found more than 60 books containing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-op-ed-showing-sex-kink-to-children-encourages-self-expression\/\" title=\"WaPo Op-Ed: Showing Sex \u2018Kink\u2019 To Children Encourages \u2018Self-Expression\u2019\">sexually explicit content<\/a> and queer ideology. Some contain erotica and detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. Others contain sexually explicit visuals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All Boys Aren&rsquo;t Blue,&rdquo; George M. Johnson&rsquo;s self-proclaimed &ldquo;memoir-manifesto&rdquo; detailing the author&rsquo;s &ldquo;journey growing up as a queer Black man,&rdquo; is <a href=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/83719\/search\/all?q=all%20boys%20aren%27t%20blue&amp;ists=0&amp;activeMenu=HOME\">available<\/a> at Cameron High School. Students now need parent approval to check it out from behind the circulation desk, the catalog says. Here is an excerpt (warning: graphic):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is a fear, as with most things that you are doing for the first time. But this was my ass, and I was struggling to imagine someone inside me. And he was . . . large. But, I was gonna try. I had previously topped someone who clearly enjoyed it, but he had been enjoying anal sex before I ever came along. He knew what to expect. I didn&rsquo;t. As an avid porn watcher, the only thing I knew about anal sex previously was that it was painful, or at least played up as such on the cameras&hellip;.He got on top and slowly inserted himself into me. It was the worst pain I think I had ever felt in my life. He then added more lube and tried again, which felt better but not by much. He began his stroking motion. Eventually, I felt a mix of pleasure with the pain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Local church leader Colleen Hardy read portions of this book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yaykgqn8Bl4\">aloud<\/a> to the school board in 2023. Still, the district&rsquo;s book review committee, composed of high school principal Jayson Erdman, assistant principal Derek Lannigan, librarian Tonya O&rsquo;Boyle, English teacher Eden Beasley, and community member Andrew Henry, voted by secret ballot to keep the book in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach\/\" title=\"Terry McAuliffe: \u2018I Don\u2019t Think Parents Should Be Telling Schools What They Should Teach\u2019\">high school library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Bluest Eye&rdquo; by Toni Morrison, a coming-of-age story that covers racism, incest, and child molestation, is also <a href=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/83719\/search\/all?q=the%20bluest%20eye&amp;ists=0&amp;activeMenu=HOME\">available<\/a> to children in the district&rsquo;s library.&nbsp;This book is also recently marked as needing parent approval for teens to obtain. Here&rsquo;s a (graphic) excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He put his head down and nibbled at the back of her leg&hellip;The confused mixture of his memories of Pauline and the doing of a wild and forbidden thing excited him, and a bolt of desire ran down his genitals, giving it length, and softening the lips of his anus. Surrounding all of this lust was a border of politeness. He wanted to f&ndash;k her tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down to his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made&mdash;a hollow suck of air in the back of her throat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity&rdquo; by Michael Cart contains stories exploring &ldquo;themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality&rdquo; as well as graphics of male and female nudity. It can be <a href=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/83719\/search\/all?q=How%20Beautiful%20the%20Ordinary&amp;ists=0&amp;activeMenu=HOME\">borrowed<\/a> by children in a school district library, now with parent permission.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Parents Challenge &lsquo;Secret&rsquo; School Board Meetings<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Gilbert shared his findings on Facebook in March 2023. He later created a <a href=\"https:\/\/cameronschooldistrictexposed.com\/the-dirty-book-list\/\">website<\/a> to share what he calls &ldquo;the dirty book list&rdquo; so parents can see the content for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Matt Robinson alerted the school board after Gilbert went public with the existence of pornographic books in the school libraries. A series of emails uncovered in an open records request from Gilbert reveals that two individuals, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cameron.k12.mo.us\/o\/cameron-high-school\/staff?page_no=2\">librarian<\/a> O&rsquo;Boyle, requested a &ldquo;closed session&rdquo; to address the school board and exclude parents.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson declined, the emails show, stating<strong> <\/strong>that would make it seem like they were &ldquo;hiding something.&rdquo; He later remarked he didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;feel like giving our citizens another arrow to call the MO Ethics Commission or State Attorney General&rsquo;s office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson revealed he had known about the pornographic books since August 2022, writing, &ldquo;We knew this day was coming and we just wanted something to say about our procedure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I sat down with all librarians in August and shared my thoughts on controversial books and shared that our day is coming, it&rsquo;s only a matter of time,&rdquo; he said in another email, before seemingly alluding to Gilbert&rsquo;s Facebook post. &ldquo;Well our time arrived last Thursday.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert and other parents addressed the Board of Education in March 2023, filing paperwork to challenge the books with adult content. A book review committee including several school administrators was assembled, per district policy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The decisions to keep all of these books started coming out,&rdquo; Gilbert explained. &ldquo;I asked for records through a Missouri Sunshine Law request, and I was told emphatically that there were no records available. I started inquiring into when those meetings were held, how they were held&hellip; [the book review committee members] were meeting in secret.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert obtained copies of the vote ballots from these meetings, which were cast anonymously.&nbsp;The state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunshineLawHandbook-BAILEY-FINISHED-2023-2.pdf\">Sunshine Law<\/a> requires &ldquo;meetings, records, votes, actions, and deliberations of public governmental bodies be open to the public unless otherwise provided by law,&rdquo; including &ldquo;advisory committees or subcommittees that report to a larger governmental entity.&rdquo; Gilbert says the Cameron R-I school board violated the law, so he filed a complaint with state <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/\">Attorney General <\/a>Andrew Bailey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By August, the Board of Education had overturned policy KLB AP-1, which gave local taxpayers the ability to challenge library books.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We used to be able to come in every month&hellip;and we could talk about an issue until the issue was resolved,&rdquo; Gilbert explained. &ldquo;They rescinded all of the policies that allowed me to challenge a book [and] the creation of a book review committee. That policy was rescinded.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/cameronschooldistrictexposed.com\/confirmed-cameron-school-district-ineligible-for-state-funds-to-purchase-library-books\/\">argued<\/a> the library was not in compliance with the state&rsquo;s Library Certification Requirement for the Protection of Minors in September 2023.&nbsp;The law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.mo.gov\/cmsimages\/adrules\/csr\/current\/15csr\/15c30-200.pdf\">requires<\/a> &ldquo;all eligible public libraries [to] file the certification required&hellip;with the state library&rdquo; to receive funding. In response to Allen&rsquo;s records request for the school&rsquo;s filing, the district claimed they had nothing to share.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>&lsquo;Cop-Out&rsquo; by School District<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To appease parents, the high school added a form allowing parents to specify books their children cannot borrow from the library, and placed 36 books behind the circulation desk, where children must have parent permission to check them out. But Gilbert says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whitmer-and-shapiro-stump-for-harris-in-pennsylvania-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Whitmer and Shapiro stump for Harris in Pennsylvania - Washington Examiner\">form doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t prevent kids from viewing explicit books that parents don&rsquo;t know about yet.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say I don&rsquo;t want my child to read a book about incest, homosexuality&hellip;heterosexual sex acts, violence to include murder. I can&rsquo;t select a topic. There is no system. There is no ability for a parent to restrict a book based on the content,&rdquo; Gilbert explained. &ldquo;I am required to know the content of the 33,000 books that are in the Cameron school district and I have to name every book by enable in order to restrict my child from reading that adult content.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Emails obtained by The Federalist show Allen&rsquo;s request to school board president Pam Ice to access the library and browse the books. In July 2024, Ice denied the request, rendering the parent consent form pointless &mdash; if parents can&rsquo;t enter their children&rsquo;s school library, they can&rsquo;t name books in that library they don&rsquo;t want their children reading.&nbsp;They can only rely on checking the library catalog against explicit books they&rsquo;ve heard about elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Allen says the school&rsquo;s actions are part of a greater effort to remove parental authority over children&rsquo;s education. Parenting, she says, has been replaced by alleged &ldquo;professional expertise.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s not one person on this planet that knows what&rsquo;s best for my children more than I do,&rdquo; Allen said. &ldquo;So for them to throw that weight around like they have more value and should be entrusted more so than a parent&hellip;I think they&rsquo;ve elevated themselves to a level that is not reasonable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Parents &lsquo;Not Going Anywhere&rsquo;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The push against pornography in Cameron children&rsquo;s libraries has stalled as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crt-experts-offer-advice-on-how-parents-can-fight-back-against-indoctrination-in-their-childs-classroom\/\" title=\"CRT Experts Offer Advice On How Parents Can Fight Back Against Indoctrination In Their Child\u2019s Classroom\">school district refuses<\/a> to take action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They won&rsquo;t negotiate with us. They won&rsquo;t talk with us. They won&rsquo;t even tell us the school district&rsquo;s position on what type of content is appropriate,&rdquo; Gilbert said. &ldquo;They absolutely refuse to have any dialogue with the community. They will not answer any of our questions. We ask often, what is the educational value of this book? What is the curriculum objective of this book?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But he&rsquo;s not giving up the fight. Neither is Allen, although her daughter has graduated and her son has moved to a private school.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will continue to advocate for them,&rdquo; Allen explained. &ldquo; I&rsquo;m still here, and I&rsquo;m not going anywhere&hellip;because all kids matter, not just mine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist contacted Ice and Robinson to ask if they believe pornographic content is appropriate or educational for minors. The Federalist also included excerpts of pornographic material contained in the school library and asked if Ice and Robinson considered the material &ldquo;sexually explicit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson did not reply to the request for comment. Ice replied with a <a href=\"https:\/\/egs.edcounsel.law\/cameron-r-i-school-district-policies\/instruction\">link<\/a> to the district policies and the school board&rsquo;s timeline of events.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ice did not respond to the Federalist&rsquo;s second attempt to confirm whether she believes pornographic content, including a graphic description of anal sex, is appropriate for minors or educational.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Monroe Harless is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in journalism and political science.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Note: This article contains explicit sexual content.** When Paula Allen initially sought to have pornography taken out of her child&#8217;s school library, she was unaware that it would spark controversy. She believed that there was a consensus on the need to remove graphic depictions of sexual acts and full-frontal nudity from schools. However, the school board in Missouri&#8217;s Cameron R-I district, which serves 1,600 students in a Kansas City suburb, disagreed. After two years of parental complaints, the district decided in August to place 36 out of 80 contested books behind the circulation desk; these materials remain accessible to minors with parental permission. Any explicit books that parents have yet to discover or future selections made by staff who have already used taxpayer money for such materials could still be available after the district restricted parents&#8217; access to the library.<\/p>\n<p>Allen recounted her experience at an initial meeting with the superintendent where she pleaded for collaboration as concerned parents: \u201cYou must address these concerns,\u201d she urged. Instead of engaging constructively, Allen felt they were subjected to character attacks aimed at discrediting them while portraying school officials as victims and themselves as villains simply for advocating for their children.<\/p>\n<p>For over two years, a group of local parents has been fighting against what they see as inappropriate content in school libraries. Allen and Heath Gilbert discussed their efforts with The Federalist regarding their attempts to keep pornographic literature away from children and how their school board has resisted these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert began investigating this issue back in 2020 when sexually explicit books gained national attention. He approached the superintendent\u2019s office seeking access to review library contents but received no clear answers. By January 2023, he and fellow parent Dan Landi took matters into their own hands after being assured by high school librarian Tonya O\u2019Boyle that no pornographic material was available at Cameron R-I schools; however, upon checking online records themselves, they discovered over 60 titles containing sexually explicit content and queer themes\u2014some featuring erotica or graphic descriptions of sexual acts.<\/p>\n<p>One example is &#8220;All Boys Aren&#8217;t Blue&#8221; by George M. Johnson\u2014a memoir detailing his experiences growing up as a queer Black man\u2014which is now only available behind the circulation desk with parental approval due to its graphic nature.<\/p>\n<p>Despite public readings from this book during a school board meeting by local church leader Colleen Hardy in 2023 highlighting its explicitness, a committee responsible for reviewing challenged books voted secretly not to remove it from circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Other controversial titles include Toni Morrison&#8217;s &#8220;The Bluest Eye,&#8221; which addresses heavy themes like racism and incest but remains accessible under similar restrictions requiring parental consent due to its sensitive content.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2023 Gilbert shared his findings on social media leading him eventually creating an online platform listing what he termed \u201cthe dirty book list\u201d so other parents could see this material firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>After Gilbert went public about these issues within libraries\u2014prompting Superintendent Matt Robinson\u2019s awareness\u2014the situation escalated further when emails revealed attempts by some librarians requesting closed sessions without parent involvement regarding discussions about these contentious materials.<\/p>\n<p>By August 2023 changes were made nullifying policies allowing community members challenges against library contents effectively silencing parent voices on such matters moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Despite setbacks including limited communication from district officials regarding educational value or appropriateness surrounding certain texts\u2014Gilbert remains determined alongside Allen who continues advocating even after her own children transitioned out of public schooling stating emphatically: \u201cI\u2019m still here\u2026and I\u2019m not going anywhere\u2026because all kids matter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Federalist reached out for comments concerning whether officials believe such pornographic material is suitable or educationally relevant for minors but received little response beyond links directing towards existing policies without addressing specific inquiries directly related those concerns raised earlier within community dialogues around this topic overall indicating ongoing tensions between parental rights versus institutional authority over educational environments involving sensitive subject matter like sexuality among youth today across various districts nationwide including Cameron R-I specifically highlighted here throughout narrative presented above reflecting broader societal debates occurring presently surrounding education systems overall too often overlooked amidst complexities involved therein ultimately impacting families everywhere significantly long-term if left unaddressed adequately moving forward together collaboratively instead toward constructive solutions beneficial all parties involved ultimately prioritizing children&#8217;s best interests foremost always above else consistently throughout process itself continually evolving adapting accordingly based needs expressed openly transparently regularly fostering healthy dialogue necessary achieve desired outcomes collectively together harmoniously progressing ahead positively shaping futures brighter generations yet come 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