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From a recent issue of Food for the Hungry's quarterly magazine:
Everyone has a story. Our stories tell of our triumphs and struggles, our mountain-top experiences and seasons in the valleys that have shaped who we are....
But far from the fairy-tale like stories of the rich and famous, the stories you hear in the seedy villages of Africa don't start with "Once Upon a Time..."
On the contrary, they open with nightmarish scenes: "I was repeatedly raped during the genocide"; "I got AIDS from my unfaithful husband. Now my kids are infected and we are left to die"; "I am a widow and am terrified to think of what will happen to my children when I am gone."
These are some of the story lines we heard during our five-week tour of East Africa. We went to listen, to be present. We found that there is nothing more human than entering someone's story with them.
