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Sharon R. Pinder: You can come home again
Sharon R. Pinder, The Examiner Aug 24, 2007 3:00 AM (834 days ago)BALTIMORE I first met my daughter about a decade ago. I was a volunteer with journalist DeWayne Wickham’s Woodholme Foundation, which provides scholarships for at-risk youth. As chair of the education committee, I recruited Biah, our first international candidate. She had recently arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Liberia, where she witnessed her mother, stepfather and siblings massacred during a brutal civil war. Through a series of unusual circumstances, Biah was taken from a refugee camp and brought to America to seek political asylum.
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