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Fork on the Prairie Road: Uncivil discourse should not define us

Sheri Poore
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 Updated Nov 3, 2020

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October would be more pleasant if the rhetoric that surrounds us would be more civil.

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Sheri Poore grew up on a Day County dairy farm and is a former Tri-State Neighbor editor now living in Sioux Falls.