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But nothing gets better. There is no path for improvement—no effort you can make, nothing you can do, and nothing anybody else can do either, short of the killers in your country laying down their arms and stopping their war so that you can move home.

— Clemantine Wamariya The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story About War and What Comes After (2018)

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