A Soft Landing in Missoula
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Mary Poole has been a nurse, an arborist, a jewelry-maker, and a mom. But she’s neverbeen a politician or an activist. At least not until one heartbreaking photo from halfway aroundthe world changed everything for her. Now she’s on a mission to make her hometown ofMissoula, Montana, home to refugees fleeing conflict globally. But not everyone in thisconservative state is happy about it.
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