On this anniversary, while remembering the dead and celebra… - Edwidge Danticat

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On this anniversary, while remembering the dead and celebrating those still living, I also want to recognize more than ever the marginalized members of Haitian society—people like my grandparents and their grandparents, poor, urban and rural, self-reliant and proud men and women who are the backbone of Haiti. Without their full inclusion and participation in the reconstruction of their country, Haiti will never fully succeed.

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Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.

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