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You can either look at the glass half full or half empty

How do you feel about the French election, the new elected president, they ask?
The election in itself do not erase the past. High hopes and languishing despair are at play. The beholder can look at the glass either half full or half empty. France, together - France, divided. Dream or nightmare. The only certainty is that we do not know what the future hold.

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