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Invoke reciprocation

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This is a carpet that depicts 
the battle between Italy and

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Ethiopia because Italy invaded 
Ethiopia in the 1930s.

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When that invasion occurred,

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the people of Mexico 
donated money and

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sent it to the 
people of Ethiopia.

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Something like 80 years later,

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Mexico had this horrendous 
series of earthquakes,

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lots of dead people, lots 
of injury, lots of suffering.

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The people of Ethiopia, even 
though they were in a famine,

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collected money and sent 
money to Mexico because they

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felt the necessary 
obligation to reciprocate.

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Fast forward a few years.

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About right after the Civil War, 
the people of Charleston, South Carolina,

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were using bucket 
brigades to fight fires.

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The people of New York, including 
Union soldiers, heard about this.

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And they donated money to buy the 
city of Charleston a fire truck.

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That first fire truck was 
on a boat that sank.

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So, they had to raise 
money again and send

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another fire truck 
to Charleston.

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Fast forward to 
right after 09/11.

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The people of Charleston raised 
over half a million dollars to

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buy a fire truck for the people of 
New York because the people of

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Charleston pledged that if 
New York ever needed its help,

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it would come through, 
135 years later.

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Reciprocation is a 
very powerful force

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to make your 
enchantment endure.