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Our country has just recorded a sharp drop in our fertility rate from seven children per woman in the 1960s to 1.7 today, below the replacement rate of 2.1.

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What’s happening to our country?

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Now you know why private armies proliferate all over the country.

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Our reality today is simple: our country is in deep doodoo.

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I have a dear friend in America named Julie Hill whom I have written about before, an old friend of our country and people.

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I have a dear friend in America named Julie Hill whom I have written about before, an old friend of our country and people.

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