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  "path": "/when-we-choose-each-other/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T13:30:34.000Z",
  "site": "https://valah.blog",
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  "textContent": "A Manifesto for Liberation Now\n\n## The Fact of Our Binding\n\nJames Baldwin wrote: _\" Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.\"_ But there is something else Baldwin understood, something that sits beneath every essay he wrote, every warning he",
  "title": "When We Choose Each Other"
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