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Hey, America, You Look Like You Need a Hug
My country is hurting.
We the people, are hurting.
The hurt shows up in so many ways, ways that surprise and distract and confuse us, ways that don't always look like hurt from where we're standing, ways that don't seem like pain from a distance:
Quick impatience with strangers in the checkout line.Emotional outbursts at people we love.Venomous, hateful, bitter social media tirades.Polarizing partisan rhetoric.Burning buildings and hurtful words and severed ties.Self-medication, self-harm, and self-destruction.
These terrible, grief-worthy things are indeed exactly that: terrible and…
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