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This tree represents for all of us. And that will make this world, with our own decisions, with our own hands, more acceptance, more tolerance, as we wait with great anxiousness on our u. S. Supreme court to exhibit their tolerance in our United States for the samesex marriage that we all deserve. [ applause ] i also wanted to again, acknowledge that this is the season of giving, and hope that you will join us from now to the end of january, and a donation in the city hall when you have to visit, we have canisters for those who need food for this season, also if you would join us in the weeken...

Every year that it has been here and i tell you when it was announced that this was the tallest, largest tree of hope in the United States, if not in the world, i also wanted to say my very first thought was San Francisco has always the biggest hearts in the world, thanks to all of you. Thank you, donna, for your wonderful mc work here every year. And your beautiful presence. Jeff carter, thank you very much, congratulations and thank you on behalf of everyone in the city, we are so proud of your work. Karin that i have known for 30 years, thank you for you and all of the volunteers from the r...

People who helped with this years tree. First i want to start off with our core team, our Core Creative Team and that consists of karin kai and linda mihara and thank you they have been working on the tree for seven years. And this year we have the help of dozens of volunteers and i want to particularly acknowledge the university of berkeley alfa, fi Omega Service community and volunteers from one brick. Aid for good, the San Francisco chapter. And you guys are here. The bridgemen. The left coast theatre. Skip and the staff of martinis bar. Yeah. And berny man and we had a bunch of burners hel...

And linda mahara, thank you for your wonderful presentation, you know the stories that linda tells every year that updates us. These are the stories that i am proud of. Because for every story that she has told about the original, the origin of origami, we inherit those stories and spread them to generations of our friends and children and so they understand what hope is about. Halahanzo, and our San Francisco, polorio. Thank you for being here tonight. I also know that veronica klaus, thank you for being here. Sisters, i was going to say the sisters of petulince. Thank you for being here as w...

For the samesex marriage that we all deserve. [ applause ] i also wanted to again, acknowledge that this is the season of giving, and hope that you will join us from now to the end of january, and a donation in the city hall when you have to visit, we have canisters for those who need food for this season, also if you would join us in the weekend of december 15th and 16th, we are going to have family orientation outside with snow day here in city hall. We are bringing snow in again. And we are going to enjoy this with our snow day, december 15th and 16th, you are all welcome to come and bring ...