WHEW! DOESN’T IT feel like we can all exhale now after four years of holding our breath?
Well, maybe not our many GOP conservative friends — but that is what many people are saying on social media and in letters to the editor after Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
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