SO, OTHER THAN GETTING BACK to a more normal way of life (whenever and whatever that will be), what is your hope for how people will be changed by this wrenching experience that all the world is going through?
Spending my time writing alone in my Saco Woods third-floor condo Center Conway satellite office of The Conway Daily Sun, such thoughts permeate my brain as I listen to the news and view messages on social media.
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