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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

We don't see them as Democrats.

They're the Mitchells.

We know they are good people who live next door.

We love them.

In a country where 93% of us say civility is a problem.

This story in the Wall Street Journal is welcome news.

We meet the Gates family, who are lifelong Republicans, and the Mitchells,

who are lifelong Democrats. The two families are next-door neighbors in suburban Pittsburgh.

The Gates home displays a Trump yard sign. The Mitchell home displays a Biden sign. But next to each,

there is another sign which says, we heart them, with an arrow pointing to the other family's home and one nation inside the heart drawing.

What is the key to such civility among families who disagree politically?

Each couple has three children, roughly the same ages.

They share a love for hockey.

The boys play in the same team.

They gather for dinner together each Monday evening. As the journal notes, they don't argue. They don't label each other. They listen to each other's perspective, look for common ground, and recognize

that reasonable and good people can reach different conclusions.

Gillian Mitchell, age 14, says, I'm not a voter, but I think people should be mature and not argue

all the time or fight. Fighting just leads to more fighting. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote later today on President Trump's nomination of Judge

Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. During a rare Saturday session, Senator Lisa Murkowski,

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