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Best of 2022: Personal Essays

by Longreads December 8, 2022December 9, 2022

Five notable personal essays published this year, on friendship, loss, war, endings, and metaphors.

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‘They Become Our Family’: US Farming Couple Rescues Afghans

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 24, 2021October 19, 2022

“Clarin has helped get five of her former employees and their families into the U.S. since 2017, while her wife has helped them rebuild their lives in America.”

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‘Look After My Babies’: In Ethiopia, a Tigray Family’s Quest

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 23, 2021October 19, 2022

War broke out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region at the worst possible time for Abraha Kinfe Gebremariam and his family: his wife was giving birth to twins amid a massacre.

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