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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Literature & Fiction
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We Can't Just Leave Them
It might have been this event that changed Rama's direction. Before, she committed to educating child widows. But now? Now she's in Sohagpur among famine victims. She's been all over the world, established herself and her school, but now she's faced with the trauma of her childhood. Famine. Poverty. Relentless despair. Rama can't turn away.
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Rama nodded, more interested in the three starving children walking across the yard. The tallest, presumably the oldest, had covered her skeletal body with rags. Her two younger brothers wore nothing.
The girl held out her empty hands. “Please, miss.”
Rama wasn’t prepared. She wasn’t allowed to feed them without permission. Where’s the man in charge? The child stared with blank eyes.
“I don’t have anything.”
The girl’s eyes slid away.
Mrs. Drynan returned. “There’s no one worthwhile here.”
“But we can’t just leave them with nothing. Look at the baby. He can hardly open his eyes. We have to help him.” Rama heard a shout. The toddler had wandered too near a bullock cart and had fallen. Blood flowed from his leg.
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