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The year of 2017 was a potent confluence of fire and rain, achievement and failure, upheaval sprung from the country’s highest office and heart-wrenching drama emanating from courtrooms seeking truth on behalf of two young women who died far too young. We were flabbergasted by the high cost of housing, and by the prospect that a 10-year-old boy could jump on a water slide in May and still be suffering, six months later, from terrifying nightmares as he tries to fall asleep at night.