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Hi, and welcome to episode 208.

If you haven't listened to episode 207, it was with Elizabeth Eklund.

I hope you enjoyed it.

I did enjoy it. And if you haven't listened to it, go back and listen to it.

But for episode 208, it will be for a Father's Day

special with Bruce Wasser. Bruce Wasser is someone that reached out to me, and I thought his

story was great. He has a memoir called 90. He was a conscientious objector during Vietnam War.

He's a graduate with high honors from Princeton, and he served as a public school teacher

for over three decades where he created a statewide curriculum that got honors that stimulated

empathy for those who are victims of persecution.

Now retired, he lives with his wife, who is also an author, Fern Schumer Chapman,

in Northern Illinois. I hope you enjoy the interview,

and here it is.

GetFree.AI. You heard me talk about it. I'm going to keep on talking about it because I love it.

I've had about a year

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