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Winter Issue: Building Bridges 

Our Winter issue on Building Bridges struck a chord with some readers who were looking for inspiration to find healing and connection in our polarized society. 

Tom Tomaka from Atlanta, Georgia, found Amanda Abrams鈥� article 鈥淵es, You Can Change Someone鈥檚 Mind鈥� to be particularly timely. 鈥淕reat article,鈥� he wrote on Facebook. 鈥淎nd very important as we ponder the possibility of Trump winning reelection with the help of the Electoral College. The vote could be that close. As daunting as it might sound, we should remind ourselves that we don鈥檛 necessarily need to completely change the minds of Trump supporters. His reelection is conditioned upon a massive turnout of these supporters, as they did in 2016. Our encounters with them only need to crack open the door to rational thought and true empathy. If we soften, not change, their views of immigration, abortion, guns, et cetera, we just might prompt enough of them to stand down at the polls.鈥� 

Julee Clear from Sugar Land, Texas, was moved by our feature on 鈥淒eradicalization in the Deep South.鈥� She wrote to us on Facebook to share her thoughts: 鈥淚ncredible woman, and incredible article by DJ Cashmere. Shannon Martinez is a shero and a wounded healer, who has healed herself and now helping heal others. I hope she is getting the emotional support she needs since she is supporting so many. What an inspiring way to begin my day.鈥� 

A New 大象传媒 Community 

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Created by Vox Media and funded in part by The Lenfest Institute鈥檚 Community Listening and Engagement Fund, this is different than many of the commenting platforms you may have encountered elsewhere. This one was created with real people in mind. You can engage directly with fellow readers, as well as editors, writers, and other 大象传媒 staff to talk about the topics that matter to you and share story ideas and feedback in real time. 

With each new magazine we launch, we鈥檒l offer a dedicated space for readers to tell us what inspired you, what made you think, and what you could have done without. Your words could end up in the next magazine, as we鈥檒l publish a few of our favorite comments in this section with every upcoming issue. 

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