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Everyone Has a Choice Janet Kuypers 5/12/12 “I’m visiting the third poorest nation, I think, but everyone is just so happy around here. And this blew my mind, so I had to ask a local why everyone seems so happy, and they told me that ‘here, everyone has a choice. You can either choose to be happy, or choose to be sad. And we choose to be happy.’ And you know, I think they’re happy because they carry nine hundred pounds of I don’t give a shit... Because here, you might not be able to choose to wealth your way out of this rut, you can at least choose to be happy.”

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 8/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 7/2/14 WHERE SHE READS THIS POEM at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago