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Adrienne Ross

Adrienne Ross is owner of Adrienne Ross Communications and a former Southeast Missourian editorial board member.

My tears are talking

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 ~ Updated 9:29 PM

I find myself back in this place periodically, tears sneaking up on me. I'll be minding my own business, doing what I do. When you do what I do for a living, running smack into tragedy is par for the course. My full-time job as an editor for a major news and politics website entails publishing articles about happenings all over the world -- too much of it sad. You'd think I'd be used to it by now. Apparently not -- and God forbid that ever happens.

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