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Readers write: Finding progress despite violent histories

Separate, but never equal

How brave and honest of the Monitor to uncover the deeper reasons for American violence and mistaken thinking in the June 5 cover story, “Exposing the roots of violence.” I spent my early childhood in Wilmington, Delaware, where my family housed and fed boarders working in the factories. My education at the time

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