Coming Together

It's funny--well, no, not funny, but wonderful--

Humans will never let one another down.  Institutions may do that, your government may do that, but how lucky we are to belong to the kindest species on Earth.

I mean, elephants could give us a run for our money, sure.  But I think we're in the lead.

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