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Photo by Christopher Lane Princeton AN ARTFUL EXPRESSION OF GRIEF How do you express grief over lives lost to Covid-19 and police brutality? How do you create community in a time of isolation? For many Princeton-area residents, the answer arose from Japanese tradition: folding thousands of origami paper cranes. “When Covid happened, so many people were dying, and it seemed so hopeless,” says Heidi Moon Matsukawa, proprietor of Miya Table and Home, a Japanese tableware and gift store in Princeton. “We started thinking about creating cranes for every person who died in New Jersey from Covid, so people could see...