A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to His Son

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For free subscribers, every other Friday, I share a story that’s a little black-eyed, bruised and tender about our most vulnerable human experiences concerning race, gender, religion, culture and politics.

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