When dealing with refugees, especially en masse, it’s better not to think of them as people. It messes with the paperwork.
“Summers with Rene began with a cigarette in one side of her mouth and a squinting of her eyes as she thought . . . . Shortly, she would make her pronouncement and it would seem magical no matter how often the words were said. "It's a beach day," blessed the day. The rest was understood. No more needed to be said. I knew that she knew. She had the gift to read what would come from the skies as surely as my mother could see births and betrayals in the cards.”
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
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