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When I was a young teenager living in Argentina, well before the Internet era, I had a pen pal friendship with a teenager boy living in Ghana. Letters took months to arrive (if they did) and I felt such a thrill to exchange thoughts with someone so far away, so different. [...]

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I’ve been very quiet lately, not really much to talk about. Maybe is this long wait for the court date that seems to have stopped time. The holidays and the weather haven’t helped much either. It’s not snowing and not even very cold. Worse, we have a perpetual rain in town. Since we were waiting [...]

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A couple of Christmas ago, I commented about the tradition of the Three Wise Men in Spain and in many countries of Latin America. One of the ways of celebrating these festivities is through a parade, where there is always a man representing the black wise man Balthazar, usually a white man in blackface. I [...]

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