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It takes a disaster to remind us of our common humanity. Let’s not forget that too soon

WE’VE ALL BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW TO HELP TEXAS after the unfathomable devastation of Hurricane Harvey. But after watching the way the people of that state have responded to this vast tragedy, I think that Texas might save the rest of us too. There’s been so much ugliness, division and fear on our screens and in our hearts over the past two years that it was getting hard to imagine how we’d ever stitch the country together again. Then a once-in-a-thousand-year

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