Monday, January 25, 2010

Edwidge Danticat: Haiti, the earthquake, and my family.

 
 

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via Politics by Edwidge Danticat on 1/24/10

My cousin Maxo has died. The house that I called home during my visits to Haiti collapsed on top of him. Maxo was born on November 4, 1948, after three days of agonizing labor. "I felt," my Aunt Denise used to say, "as though I spent all . . .

 
 

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