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Orange County Communists and Other Impossible People

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Chrissy Stroop
Sep 25, 2023
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All my plans fell through my hands, they fell through my hands on me. All my dreams, it suddenly seems, it suddenly seems, empty. - Dolores O’Riordan, the Cranberries, “Empty”

“We are communists.” Wait a minute… Communists? The classic 20th-century American bugbear? In the flesh in (of all places) Orange County, California!

I was certainly caught off guar…

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