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I feel you, young bruh.

I feel you, too, Birmingham.

Jerimy Littlepage was the youngest of eight combatants seeking to unseat the two-term mayoral incumbent, Randall Woodfin. Littlepage is 26, and his quixotic run was a thesis in real time. A hands-on study of a “very important election” (his words). “I was trying to be as professional as I could. I thought we had to be serious.”

His findings? “I was super wrong,” he lamented on his Facebook page on election day. “Birmingham is not the city for that.”

I feel you, sir. Truly. What transpired here over the last few weeks was a muck-ugly mess, a torrent of personal attacks and petty retorts. It was an embarrassment that resulted in a pitiabl

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