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My plans for the second weekend of August were not very interesting. I hoped to get caught up on laundry, try out a new recipe, possibly catch a movie with my husband, and spend some time that Sunday refining my lesson plans for the following week (my school went back in session on the third day of the month). But those plans were quickly thwarted when white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., for a “protest” they called “Unite the Right”—a gathering that ended in violence and the loss of life.

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