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芯のですが
I would say that it was about fifteen years ago, a little girl, perhaps ten years old, was
sitting in a wheelchair outside the hospital of Maputo, the capital of 1
Mozambique. To my
surprise, the girl had no legs. I had a few words with her. She spoke in a very low voice, and
私は彼女に話しかけた
it was difficult to catch what she was saying. But I understood that her name was Lilia.
Today, many years later, Lilia is one of my closest and dearest friends. No one has taught
me as much as she has about the conditions of being human. Also, no one has taught me more
であること
about poor people's *unprecedented power of resistance, (2 the people who have to live at the
lowest of society in a world we all *share and inhabit; so *unjust, brutal and unnecessary.
hardest things about
The last word is very important. The unnecessary. One of the ③3③
today is that most of the *suffering is unnecessary. As I am writing this sentence, another
child dies ( A ) *malaria, and that is unnecessary. At the same time, millions of children
will not be able to read this. For them these words will be just strange signs because they
simply do not have the *knowledge to understand them. For a writer like me, that is perhaps
the biggest *disgrace of today, in the year 2008 millions and millions of children have to live
a life in a world which they are *denied the *fundamental human right to learn how to read
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