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Black Tears

It was an interesting phenomenon being a white person in Africa. Countless times, little children would glimpse me as the first white person they'd ever seen. More often than not, the children would panic and cry rather than show curiosity. Here, I had been talking with this child's parents while he was playing in the black coal dust on the ground. When he saw me, he started screaming so his mom started nursing him to quiet him down.

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Uploaded on November 10, 2008
Taken on March 14, 2008