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From uganda to the midwest, all our names draws portraits. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Mar 23, 2014 dinaw mengestus all our names follows the relationship between a foreign exchange student from ethiopia and the midwestern social worker assigned to help him. We read not to encounter the other, but to see ourselves refracted in a different landscape, in a different time, in shoes and clothes that perhaps bear no resemblance to our own.
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