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https://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Poems-Trying-Times.jpg?fit=800%2C400800400One place that I have found comfort before and continue to find it now is in poetry, the words of others who have experienced and seen unspeakable things and come out on the other side. I hope you can find some comfort in them, too.