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    “Go Make Pies!”

    Oct 27, 2020 4 minutes
    BY ROSE McGEE, Golden Valley, Minnesota

    I SAT IN MY LIVING ROOM IN MINNESOTA, watching news coverage of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a Black 18-year-old, by a white police officer. Video of police in riot gear, tear gas snaking through dark streets, people’s eyes filled with anger and fear. How horrible it was that violence had led to more violence! But what could I do?

    Go make pies.

    The thought came to me in a flash. Not a big booming voice but the seed of an idea. I got up and went into my kitchen. Make pies? Seriously, God?

    I couldn’t imagine

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