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Ira Glass reflects on the inherent challenges of delivering meaningful graduation speeches, sharing his own experience giving one at Goucher College in 2012, where he blended personal history, family legacy, and a candid anecdote to subvert the genre’s clichés and connect authentically wi
Ira Glass reflects on the inherent challenges of delivering meaningful graduation speeches, sharing his own experience giving one at Goucher College in 2012, where he blended personal history, family legacy, and a candid anecdote to subvert the genre’s clichés and connect authentically wi
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