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Emotional scars are fresh in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. Physical rebuilding is beginning, and so is investment in the emotional health of people in the area.

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Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and ...

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