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the sterilizer, five and ten dollar bills neatly folded and tucked within the pages of letters by those residents whose families on the outside still depended upon them to eat. Some families wouldn’t take the money, Mirielle had heard.
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“You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become. That’s what my father says. You write”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“Mehri has always treated parenting like she’s cooking a big warming pan of something: a pinch of that”
― The Names
― The Names
“Anthony said, “And when you live by these three forces, no matter what has happened to you, life does become a miracle. A daily miracle.”
― All the Glimmering Stars
― All the Glimmering Stars
“As far as we are concerned, our life, our story, it’s one long incredible miracle,” Florence said, beaming before looking at Anthony. “We done?” “Just one more thing,” Anthony said, before looking at the audience with a dead-serious expression. “Never, ever get between a mama and her kittens.” “You’re asking for it if you do!” Florence said, and started laughing.”
― All the Glimmering Stars
― All the Glimmering Stars
“In 2008, the US State Department designated Kony a “global terrorist.” Later that same year, President George Bush authorized the use of US military advisers in the LRA conflict. With Anthony Opoka translating TONFAS messages and offering insight into the Great Teacher’s troubled mind, the Ugandan, Congolese, and Sudanese governments united to launch Operation Lightning Thunder. Hoping to end the LRA for good, they aerially attacked and destroyed many LRA camps in the Garamba National Park in northeast Congo.”
― All the Glimmering Stars
― All the Glimmering Stars
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