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To the Editor:

If you are reading this letter, you most likely are one of the well-informed of David McCullough Jr.’s now viral Wellesley High School commencement speech, “You are not special.”

I liked his appropriate ending, “The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special, because everyone is.”

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