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After Four Years Of Chaos And Pain, We Need To Deal With Our Post-Traumatic Stress

After Four Years Of Chaos And Pain, We Need To Deal With Our Post-Traumatic Stress

"It only recently dawned upon me that all of us -- you, I, and so many of the people we know also emerged from this dark ride with internal damage"

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Jun 24, 2021
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by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC -- Over the weekend, I took my first steps toward re-acclimating to the new post-vaccination normal, the same process so many of us are dealing with after too many years of trauma. For the first time since February 2020, I sat inside a restaurant, ate food, and drank coffee without a mask, surrounded by other maskless people.

I…

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