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After the storm: a letter home from a friend

By Paul Dziatkowiec

NAIROBI, KENYA: By any standard definition, I am not a Kenyan. In recent days, though, I certainly have been in spirit. Physically, I am oceans away, but four days of savagery at Westgate this week served only to draw me closer. Outraged, emotionally rattled but glued to the television screen, I joined millions of Kenyans, and many millions of others, in wishing the end of the senseless nightmare. It was excruciating.

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