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✓ Published: 31-Oct-2011
✓ Published: 31-Oct-2011
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Winter 2010nnFadumo (pronounced Fatuma) and I started at the same time. I was her first teacher; she was my first student. nnShe'd lived in a refugee camp for fifteen years. Like many of the refugee women, she'd been through much trauma—her brothers and father had been killed; two of her children had died very young; she'd seen war and bloodshed. And yet there she was, every single morning, with her plastic Safeway bag she used as a backpack, with that smile that could have lit up the cosmos,
Winter 2010nnFadumo (pronounced Fatuma) and I started at the same time. I was her first teacher; she was my first student. nnShe'd lived in a refugee camp for fifteen years. Like many of the refugee women, she'd been through much trauma—her brothers and father had been killed; two of her children had died very young; she'd seen war and bloodshed. And yet there she was, every single morning, with her plastic Safeway bag she used as a backpack, with that smile that could have lit up the cosmos,
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