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“Remember how the Soviets airbrushed pictures of people who had fallen from grace? We’re putting the pictures back.”

“Maps were more than mere blueprints of the world. They were also stories, prefigurations of success. The old hand-drawn ones reproduced in the books were museums of fine detail, the cartographer’s work as distinct from each other as that of the finest artists.”

“But none of this takes into account the fact that we are here as a result of a crime sponsored by a military regime, a violation of law and human decency so repugnant it is all but unspeakable.”

“Dangerous as it was, they had to march and carry posters with your names and pictures because to go on living they had to refuse to accept your disappearance.” . . . . “It was a form of hope, of love. Neither she nor any of the others can ever tell you how much it cost.”