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that is so awesome that you can bring such a smile and probably piece of mind to another human being that has seen such pain and death. And we in America think we have it hard. We live such cumbersome lives, we don't see the big picture. We mourn our dead, but their dead have died such untimely, horrid deaths the pain is not the same. I will say it again, this website should be required viewing in schools. Thank you Brandon and his aides.

Humans of New York

This woman spoke about how she had been visiting her sister in Juba when the fighting broke out, and had been unable to return home. To make matters worse, she had left her older children behind in her village, because she thought it would just be a short trip. She had not seen them in nearly a year. As I was interviewing her, she kept a very resigned, unsmiling, faraway look on her face, which can be seen in the previous post. But when we finished, my translator asked her what village she was from. When she told him, he pulled out his phone. "I've just been to your hometown on an aid mission," he said, "I can show you photos." As he scrolled through photos of her village, her expression suddenly changed.

(Tongping Internally Displaced Persons Site, Juba, South Sudan)