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My daughter Jean called the other day and said, "Mom, I have a metaphor for you." Instantly, my writer's heard was stirred because Jean doesn't mess around when it comes to a metaphor. She and her husband had just been to an exhibition of Japanese ceramics in D.C. where she learned of the "golden seams," a special method created by Japanese craftsmen to mend cracked ceramics. Instead of... |
"I never thought about what it means to be a citizen before working on this campaign. I just took it for granted. Now, for the first time, I see how I need to take a part in the process, I need to think about my place in society, I need to say no to corruption even though there is so much of it around." Hope Yancey, 16
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