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PORTLAND - Sunny skies and warm temperatures weren't enough to draw people away from the North Star Music Cafe on Sunday afternoon. In fact, the small, Congress Street venue was standing room only for a special event featuring several accomplished area writers.
The crowd listened intently as the soft-spoken, sometimes shy writers took the stage to read excerpts from their new book. They read poems praying for a better life, autobiographical accounts of the harsh reality of life in a refugee camp and stories about the hope and inspiration they discovered in a central Maine community thousands of miles away from the African desert.See the full content of this document
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"This is life. These are their stories. These are their memories that they wanted to share with the world," said Jill Hyland, an English language learner teacher at Edward Little High S...
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