Category: People
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Daughter of the Sea
Putri is a nine-year-old Sama-Bajau girl born in a hut standing alone in the middle of the Sulu sea. Mother gave birth in the presence of another woman, who cut her umbilical cord with a kitchen knife and called the baby Putri, the Sulu sea princess. Putri wakes up early in the morning, jumps into…
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A Proud Son of the Sahara Desert
Igider was a child of perhaps one of the last frontiers of a free land where humans lived in harmony with other inhabitants of this boundless space. His name in the Berber language means Eagle. He was a proud descendant of men and women who had lived in the northern Sahara for thousands of years,…
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Uqab
Uqab is a fifteen years old Bedouin boy. He is quiet, reserved, reticent, hardly speaks. A long time ago, a Bedouin warrior came to the village riding on a horse. No one knew him, who he was, where he came from. He wore a blue thoab, black serval, and on the head a white and…
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Julio, US Army Veteran
When I was in high school, I was a quiet kid. I did not engage in any verbal arguments or physical fights. I never needed to prove myself. I had one dream: to get accepted at a college, get my education, and find a job in law enforcement. I remember when my brother came home…
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A Retired Police Officer from Florida
I was born into a blue-collar family. We had a neighbor who lived across the street who was a policeman, Officer Richard. Every time he saw us, kids, he would stop and chat with us for a few minutes. He was a good storyteller, and I loved listening to his stories. From him, I learned…
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Blue Light of Life
Bakidin is a thirty-two year old man who lives near Kalipuro, East Java. He works in the field all day, Monday through Sunday, with no weekends off. He comes home exhausted, where his wife and two children are waiting for him. He sits down, and his wife brings a small plate of food: rice, mixed…
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Utomo
Utomo is a forty-seven year old man who lives in Gladah, East Java, Indonesia. He is a former sulfur miner. He used to wake up around midnight every day to walk four kilometers to a turquoise-colored acidic crater lake. He would break off chunks of sulfur, load them into baskets, and carry them to Paltuding…
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Alejandro-Please Live Your Dream
I was born in Colombia and raised in New York City. When I was a child, our family traveled internationally, and I began to like it. It wasn’t until I was a student that I seriously fell in love with traveling when I spent one semester in the Czech Republic. In March 2015, I bought…
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Story of Tanita
“I was born in Buriram. I was nine years old, when my father died. I loved my father. He worked a lot in the field and always came home tired. Even though he seldom expressed his emotions, I knew he loved me very much. I remember one day, I fell from a tree and suffered…
Small Piece of Happiness 