Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope wrote a letter to post-Trump America

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Leslie Knope, the fictional female champion of public service at the center of bygone NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, addressed America in a sweet and funny letter posted to Yahoo on Thursday.

Citing an amusing middle-school experience involving a tortoise, a jaguar, and a gassy T. Rex named Dr. Farts, Knope explained in the letter that she learned at a young age that "people are unpredictable and democracy is insane." She then explained that after large amounts of hot chocolate and crying, she had worked her way through all five stages of grief in the wake of Donald Trump's stunning Election Day victory over Hillary Clinton — except acceptance:

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Ricky Soberano

Ricky Soberano is the social media editor at TheWeek.com. Her writing has appeared in Complex, Nylon, Gothamist, Maxim, and others. Previously she was the culture editor for The Stony Brook Press and contributing editor for The Odyssey. She has a B.A. in multidisciplinary studies in journalism and dance from Stony Brook University and an A.S. in dance from Queensborough Community College. She's lived in Brooklyn her whole life, eats too much ramen, and freelance models, and she enjoys writing about the undiscovered and underreported within the sphere of culture. Follow her on Twitter.