When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the … - Dani Shapiro

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My joy knows no bounds. . . I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Dani Shapiro

When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.

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