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    'Thoughts and prayers' are not enough

    by Charles Garfield, Los Angeles Times Nov 01, 2017 3 minutes

    It's been one endless, exhausting "thoughts and prayers" season - a mass shooting, coast-to-coast disasters, loss of lives and homes and history, along with the steady drumbeat of "everyday" human frailties. A childhood friend just emailed with his news: lung cancer, metastasized, and a son diagnosed with acute lymphoma.

    Death seems too close. Darkness falls. "Thoughts and prayers," we say. "Sending you and you and you our thoughts and prayers," even as we realize it's not enough. For nearly 50 years,

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