“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness …”

And so it may seem for our beloved America today.

The long opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ "A Tale of Two Cities" is among the most well-remembered lines in literature. As much as it was about a time in history when the Reign of Terror was engulfing France, it was also a story of enduring human connections and resilience amidst chaos.

In the sad and tumultuous times we are living through as Americans, it’s beginning to look like we are weaving our own tale of a country hopelessly dividing into two. The only way out from our “winter of despair,” as Dicke

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