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The Hard-Won Wisdom of a Former Bigot

By Jon Hersey

Mar 28, 2019
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_Is there anyone who

Ever remembers changing their mind from

The paint on a sign?_

_Is there anyone who really recalls

Ever breaking rank at all

For something someone yelled real loud one time_

_Everyone believes

In how they think it ought to be

Everyone believes

And they’re not going easily_ —John Mayer

Megan Phelps-Roper was five when her parents first put a pi…

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