I’ve been meaning to recommend the story of Clemantine Wamariya for a long time. “Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours,” written by Clemantine with Elizabeth Weil, is best described by its own introduction:
“At age six, I ran away with my sister to escape the Rwandan massacre. We spent seven years as refugees. What do you want me to do about it? Cry?”
The sister, Claire, is only nine years older than Clemantine. What she did to enable them to survive is extraordinary. I was particularly struck by her reaction to one of better refugee camps they sheltered in: “… Claire felt staying in a good camp was even worse than staying in a bad one — what if we started to think this life was okay?”
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