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In accordance with our nearly annual tradition of offering send-off advice to our local high school graduates, we face unusual challenges, as do they.

These departing seniors are facing a world that is far more topsy-turvy than the one that existed when they entered high school. On that, we likely can all agree. And frankly, the normal “get thee hence and conquer the world” advice seems a little, well, hollow after the year-plus we’ve all experienced.

The coronavirus pandemic has been disruptive, by any standard. The complications caused by COVID are certainly far beyond the scope o...