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The Distance from Here to Paradise: Restoring Community
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The Distance from Here to Paradise: Restoring Community

By Sharla Moody, BK ‘22. Sharla is majoring in English.

Is Paradise for ourselves and for our campus just around the corner, after the next protest, after the next wellness discussion? Perhaps. But perhaps our desires for justice, home, and contentedness, though extraordinarily noble pursuits, are too temporal to sustain us and too blurry around the edges to formulate in a way that is good for everyone.

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