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Love Begins With Listening 

Love Begins With Listening 

Charlie Paparelli
Jun 11, 2020
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“I wanted my son to come home safe. That’s all I wanted. If there was ever an encounter with the police, I wanted him to think, ‘I need to do whatever I must do to get home safe,’” said Michelle, a friend, a mother, and an African-American.

Michelle told me this story when I called to see how she was doing in the midst of the protests here in Atlanta and…

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