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Our Tar Paper Shack

When I was a little girl, we lived in Bloomington, Indiana, where my parents were both enrolled in Graduate School at Indiana University.  We lived in a trailer, in a trailer park peopled primarily by poor and relatively uneducated workers … Continue reading

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Life in the DRC – An Inspiration

Again, we watched Al-Jazeera over breakfast.  This time, there was a documentary on life in Kinshasa.  The Democratic Republic of Congo has not been a peaceful country of late; and Kinshasa is infamous—for crime, deteriorating (or non-existent) infrastructure, and poverty.  … Continue reading

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