Once upon a life: Abraham Verghese
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Once upon a life: Abraham Verghese

Addis Ababa : Ethiopia | Apr 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM PDT
Source: The Guardian
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Here, Abraham Verghese describes the lead-up to the day in 1973 when his world turned upside-down Abraham Verghese Whenever I hear the phrase "geography is destiny" I think of my parents, George and Mariam, schoolteachers from India, arriving in the misty mountain empire of Ethiopia in 1951 within... FULL ARTICLE AT The Guardian
 
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