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The roughly 1,100 people who pick up the phone at the Veterans Crisis Line comfort Americans who are in the midst of life’s darkest moments. The Afghanistan war veteran who wakes up with nightmares ...

In Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegon Days," there's a passage that describes the fictional Minnesota town's telephone operator, who was the go-to person to hear about news, gossip and goings-on around ...