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Today is Purple Thursday. Here's what that means

National and local organizations are encouraging people to raise awareness about domestic violence by flooding social media with pictures of themselves wearing purple.
The Family Justice Center in Prince George's County was lit up purple in order to raise awareness of domestic violence in 2016 in Upper Marlboro, Md.

You may or may not know that October is , a designated time for communities and organizations nationwide to raise awareness about signs of abuse, lift up the stories of survivors

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