Quote of the Day
"The day that [my cousin] Maxo's remains were found, the call came with some degree of excitement. At least he would not rest permanently in the rubble. At least he would not go into a mass grave. Somehow, though, I sense that he would not have minded. Everyone is being robbed of rituals, he might have said, why not me?"—Haitian-American author and educator Edwidge Danticat, in a very moving piece for The New Yorker, about the personal aftermath of the earthquake.
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