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“This year, more than ever before, we will see how we get along as a national family,” Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project in Washington, told the Times.
For once just a little ahead of the curve, we noted similar Twitter activity during Canadian celebrations in October:
