Faith

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For people like me, a wanderer without home or inheritance, faith is more than hope in the unseen. It is also blood, family and nation. Keeping the faith is often as much about staying true to ones roots as it is a belief in various cosmic intangibles. And if those roots keep you tethered to those you love and are loved by, how can that be irrational regardless of how amorphous the evidence of its basis in reality?

"The Opiate of the Masses", he says, taking a drag of his cigarette. "I'll drink to that!" replied the bartender.

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