Subject: The Optimist, election-free edition: Michelle Obama, Ernie Banks and my dad just might have helped end the Cubs' curse
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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:04:49 +0000

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President Obama looked startled when Dad tried to give him the gift. Luckily, the Cubs-loving first lady took over.

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It's two days until the election. Onto the counter-programming, with twice as many stories as usual! Enjoy.

Michelle Obama, Ernie Banks and my dad just might have helped end the Cubs' curse <https://s.washingtonpost.com/1cf4/581f37637188502a595c9c94/cmhiQHJzcGRjLmNvbQ%3D%3D/6/75/422516d6533dd8dfd54eb38f2f8d39eb>

President Obama looked startled when Dad tried to give him the gift. Luckily, the Cubs-loving first lady took over.

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What’s that sound you hear? It’s the sound of a Cubs victory. A mighty sound.  <https://s.washingtonpost.com/1cf5/581f37637188502a595c9c94/cmhiQHJzcGRjLmNvbQ%3D%3D/9/75/422516d6533dd8dfd54eb38f2f8d39eb>

The great noise that sports always had in it but never could seem to unleash finally loosed itself with the Cubs’ World Series victory.

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PHOTOS: 5 million fans line the streets of Chicago for a parade 108 years in the making  <https://s.washingtonpost.com/1cf6/581f37637188502a595c9c94/cmhiQHJzcGRjLmNvbQ%3D%3D/12/75/422516d6533dd8dfd54eb38f2f8d39eb>

The Cubs' victory parade is one for the record books.

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Bill Murray did a really cool thing for a random Cubs fan before Game 6 <https://s.washingtonpost.com/1cf7/581f37637188502a595c9c94/cmhiQHJzcGRjLmNvbQ%3D%3D/15/75/422516d6533dd8dfd54eb38f2f8d39eb>

Reason No. 10 trillion why Murray is a national treasure.

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Chicago rides out a late collapse and a rain delay to beat Cleveland for its first title in 108 years.

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Let's all watch the cast of 'Hamilton' sing 'Go Cubs Go' <https://s.washingtonpost.com/1cf9/581f37637188502a595c9c94/cmhiQHJzcGRjLmNvbQ%3D%3D/21/75/422516d6533dd8dfd54eb38f2f8d39eb>

The 1984 song is actually becoming something of a minor hit.

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The celebrations may be celestial or terrestrial, but everyone paused to remember.

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A report revealed that male soccer players had done a "scouting report" and assigned them ratings based on their sexual attractiveness.

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“What people around the world don't understand: First spouses, we don't choose this position, we just happen to be in it,” Michelle Obama said.

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"I'm kind of reluctant to close the hatch,” Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin said before leaving the ISS.

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Covering an area of 600,000 square miles in the Ross Sea, the reserve is home to penguins, seals and whales.

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Antoine Leiris, a widowed father, told ISIS that it would not have his hatred.

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