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But we've all ended up giving body and soul to africa, one way or another. even adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. each of us got our heart buried in six feet of african dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. i mean, all of us, not just my family. so what do you do now? you get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.
-Barbara Kingsolver
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But We've All Ended Up Giving Body

Barbara Kingsolver
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to africa, one way or another. even adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. each of us got our heart buried in six feet of african dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. i mean, all of us, not just my family. so what do you do now? you get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.
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