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28 July, 2010 - 04:31
Another paradox, they seem to multiply when we're here at the fringes of two worlds. Here we are at home, the house where I lived through the crucial years of age 11 to 18, where I stayed through every break in college and medical school, where my wedding dress is boxed in a closet and the wallpaper in my room is the pattern I chose in the 70's and still like. This place is familiar and my mom has made every detail welcoming, from clean sheets on new mattresses to favorite breakfast cereals. This is home. And yet the sense of being a visitor is also very close to the surface. The 17 years in our home in Bundibugyo far outweigh in duration and intensity the years here. And though we are absolutely welcome in my childhood home (and Scott's, next week), it is still a space that had its own order and purpose without us and will continue on when we[...] [Published in AidBlogs - Read the original article] |