In the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C., a young woman named Lorraine Marie Thomas, at the age of 21, was actively working to create a more peaceful community. She was known for her ability to connect with others and was instrumental in helping to broker a truce between rival groups, contributing to a period of 100 days without a shooting in her neighborhood. Thomas was a volunteer with the Alliance of Concerned Men and had aspirations of becoming a violence interr
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