There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. (Edwidge Danticat)

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

Edwidge Danticat

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