It’s a sunny-but-chilly winter morning in Florence and a small group of Quakers—formally known as the Religious Society of Friends—is warming up inside Sylvia Hetzel’s apartment. The fledgling family, founded in January 2019, meets in homes on a rotating basis; Hetzel just happens to be hosting today. Still, in the Florence Friends “hierarchy”, the group jokes good-naturedly, Hetzel is the real deal. Her family’s Quaker heritage stretches back to 17th-century England, the time when the movement itself first emerged.
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