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When community groups lose their warmth while staying focused on recovery

Our neighborhood group formed after Hurricane Maria to help each other rebuild and we used to have potluck meetings where we'd solve problems and laugh until our stomachs hurt, but now our meetings feel like board meetings and nobody jokes anymore even though we're all still struggling.

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The weight of ongoing crisis has transformed your joyful resistance into grim efficiency, but you need both strength and lightness to sustain each other.

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