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And after the funeral, the survivors need feeding and the dishes won’t wash themselves…
The people who came to this boarded-up downtown on Thursday morning knew they could not do much to salve Ferguson’s wounds. But it was Thanksgiving, and they felt they could not just sit home, either. So they brought paint brushes and prayers, thermoses of coffee and trays of drop biscuits, hoping to counterbalance the arsons, angry protests and racial strife.
“This is a really small thing,” said Darcy Edwin, 26, as she painted a pastel oak tree onto the plywood boards covering an optical shop on South Florissant Road. “It’s not going to fix any big issue.”
It was cold and gray outside, and the streets that had overflowed with demonstrators for the past few nights were eerily still. Into this stepped Ms. Edwin, a Ferguson resident who works as a teaching assistant. “It’s harder to stay in,” she said….
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What’s on the agenda for the day?