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Post-election ‘love rally’ on Common focuses on solidarity

Loren Madore of Roxbury offers her support during a peace really at the Boston Common on Friday. Craig Walker / The Boston Globe

More than a thousand people gathered Friday afternoon on Boston Common for what was billed as a “Love Rally” in the wake of the election of Donald Trump.

The event was organized by two young women using Facebook, and although the invitation stressed that it was not a protest, the many anti-Trump signs and chants — including repeated renditions of “Not my president” and “Love trumps hate” — made the central message of the gathering clear: People were upset about the election and wanted to do something, anything, about it.

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