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today I stand before you
in a new responsibility.
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Time has passed for many of us...
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since we first met
in the early days of Osage.
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Time that mellows our hearts
and tells us all the truth.
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To many others among you...
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including our distinguished guests
from Washington...
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I appear more or less as a stranger.
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I want you to know me and mine,
as we are...
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to meet my family,
as if you were in my home.
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First, my youngest, my daughter, Donna...
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Mrs. Louis Hefner.
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Hello, everyone.
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Next, my firstborn...
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my boy, Cimarron.
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And now, one who has become
a member of our family by marriage...
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my son's wife, a chief's daughter...
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a full-blooded Osage Indian...
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Ruby Big Elk, Mrs. Cimarron Cravat.
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I greet you in words taught me as a child.
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May you long travel the path of life...
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in days that are calm and peaceful.
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And my grandchildren...
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Felice and Yancey II.