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“We are living in the most unusual time of my life, where people … are being asked … to stay away from each other,” Melvin said. “But at the same time, I maintain there is this new connectedness that has emerged from this.”
He added, “I don’t think as many people fully appreciated how much we need to interact with each other face-to-face — that’s who we are as creatures of God.”
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