Yeah, I mean, and I think that one of his expansion projects electorally was tapping into the Somali community. We were all new to this country, new citizens. I think It is between the age of 18 to 25 that has actually ever experienced being born in a democracy of the Somalis that are here. Right. So the rest of us were either born in a colonized Somalia or Somalia under dictatorship. And so the eagerness in wanting to participate is something that you desperately, forever thought it was possible. (04:09–04:22)
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