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 In some ways, this new Washington Post project is quite simple. Once a week, it presents a brief interview with a D.C.-area local. The subject stands in front of an all-white background and talks about what he or she does or cares about or believes in. But the minute each clip begins, the business of being human is revealed for the complex endeavor that it is. A tattooed, dread-locked, and transplanted native of New Orleans talks about missing his city and struggling against the racism he grew up with. A running back for the D.C. Divas, a women's professional tackle football team, discusses teaching Special Ed, "being all over the place," and how often she has to affirm that yes, it's tackle, and yes, they wear helmets. And more than one soul—a 4'10" nun who used to play second base, a gay Mormon, a Virginia resident who teaches devotional Hindu music—speaks to the multifaceted experience of being devout in the world today.
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