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I joined the Washington Post design team as a contract designer in November 2019. I work across sections as a print and digital designer.
Stories of Forgiveness
Despite the divisions and the discord, this is still a different time, a new year, a season for reconsideration and renewal. This year, therefore, we offer stories of forgiving — tales of people who overcame betrayal, who received an unexpected gift of financial absolution, who decided to rekindle a brutally severed relationship. And a story about why there sometimes is no path to forgiveness — and perhaps should not be.
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A Syrian American risked everything to help rebuild the country of her birth
Ghadir Taher built a successful life in Georgia — a high school standout who juggled part-time jobs to assist her Syrian immigrant family and studied business at Georgia State University. But her family said she was searching for a calling, something more. She chose to serve her adopted country as an interpreter with U.S. Special Operations troops while also helping her war-torn homeland. On January 16, 2019, Ghadir was an attack victim in the largest single loss of American life in Washington’s campaign against the Islamic State.
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Organizing for Warren in one of Iowa’s most rural counties
Anna Navin has spent the last year trying to convince voters in Iowa’s most rural counties to vote for Elizabeth Warren. With less than a month to go, she’s knocking on doors, organizing supporters and talking to anyone who will listen. “I wake up thinking about Elizabeth Warren,” Navin said. “And I go to bed thinking about Elizabeth Warren.”
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Mike Spann, first American killed in Afghanistan, died when his son Jake was a baby. He’s 18 now.
Jake Spann and his sisters were the first American kids to lose a parent in the war in Afghanistan. Jake was just a six-month infant at the time of his father’s burial. Jake is one of the hundreds of children of the fallen. Now, he's 18 and copes with a phantom grief.
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