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Brother at War, Worry at Home

 
NYC- Dec 2009/Jan 2010
December 2009/
January 2010
 

My house was very still and dark. I had woken up for no reason and I lay in bed frustrated, unable to get back to sleep. As I listened to the hum of the refrigerator, I heard the phone ring.

My mom was drunk with sleep and stumbled around her bedroom, which is adjacent to mine, trying to find the phone.

“Hello? Mark?” I heard her say through the thin wall. “What happened, Son? Why are you calling so late?”>>>(MORE)

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>> See the evaluation of the pilot-test of Real Jobs, Real Stories program at SYEP

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Edwidge Danticat

Former YC teen writer receives a prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.>>>(MORE)
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