How would you answer tonight’s final question? “What friendship have you had that would surprise us and what impact has it had on you and your beliefs?” #DemDebate

We found common ground. We didn’t talk about politics. But we talked about everything else as we ran around and watched the sun come up morning after morning.

We had little in common besides the fact that we were willing to meet each other in the dark and cold just to run. But we became friends. And when after two years, she told me she was moving I was sad to see her go.

I hosted a goodbye party for her when she left and when I looked around I realized that everyone at the gathering had voted for Trump except my husband and me.

That experience taught me. She respected me and as annoyed as I was that she voted for a candidate who campaigned promising to build a border wall and who wasted no time trying to institute a ban on immigration from some Muslim majority countries among other fails, I liked her.