The Big Read: How crime murders our hope
10 July 2015 - 02:02
In a long black dress adorned with beautiful African beads, the mother of the graduate walked slowly towards the graduation stage. Belina Mere took her place on the marked site where her son was to have stood, listening to the citation detailing the intricacies of his medical microbiology and virology research.
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