![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
[To my fellow Americans: Happy Thanksgiving!]
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots." -- US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (b. 1908-07-02, d. 1993-01-24)