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Jiaxuan's Letter
Dear Awards Committee,
I am writing this letter to nominate JiaXuan Wang, for the most philosophical person in the world. I first met JiaXuan in 2012 in College Jean de Brebeuf. He said a sentence that I still remember today. He said “Where do you get the effort to lose weight if you don’t eat enough?” From this first interaction, I was extremely impressed by JiaXuan deep commitment to INTLW BISWTE (I Need To Lose Weight But I Still Want To Eat) Department. I was very interested by his deep philosophical thinking, so I interviewed him two days ago.

My fist question is “Do you think that humans can travel in time?” I was fascinated by his answer. He said “No because if time travel were possible, wouldn’t we be swamped with visitors from the

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