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Hillary Clinton losing the election has elicited many feelings in me including anger, sadness, disappointment and fear. In a few ways I can relate to her and what she was up against as an older not very pretty woman in a world still run by men. She dedicated herself to making the world a better place and in doing so, by putting herself out there, she made mistakes as we all do. I feel the need to let go of something I have held onto for the past 6 years - the loss of my career and my feelings of betrayal by many people I thought would be more honest with me. I am a better person for these past years and I would not trade them for anything, but still I still have moments where I grieve and feel the pain of losing a big part of myself. I am 63, a child of the 60’s and grew up in a small town in the midwest. I burned my bra at my high school graduation party and protested the Vietnam war in college. Ever since I was four, I wanted to be a nurse but only so that I would “