"I didn't get to the website you gave me, but I have the next few days off and I'm on it."
VoteSaveAmerica.com will be there when she's ready, I assured her.
"There are a lot of people running, and a lot of propositions." She did not look thrilled.
"Pick an issue you care about and google it with a candidate's name. That's a good place to start."
A smile lit her face; this was within her wheelhouse.
I gave her some stickers, for herself, her friends, and their cars. She agreed that it was her generation's responsibility to care for their future. She was grinning as we talked about rallying her friends to go to the polls.
I left with a big smile on my face.
Now, I'm off to write postcards to get out the vote for Stacey Abrams, my own small contribution to counter the voter suppression tactics of her opponent. I'm still showing off the felt #InvestInEd emblem JannyLou gave me to show that I'll vote-against-the-vouchers. And I have a sticker on my car, just like the ones I gave the girl behind the counter:
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