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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

How Moving Only 55 Blocks Changed My Life

In my class, Emotions Through Art: Infusing your words with feeling, the second week lecture and assignment is a "before" and "after," that is, choosing one of the major dramas of your life and writing how it effected you. What was life like before and then after. I remembered an essay I published in Rio Grande Review that showed how moving only 55 Blocks made me just as much a refugee as my father who had fled Russia. Here's the link for the essay.
http://www.utep.edu/rgr/archive/Fall07Spring08/f07s08/shapiro.html

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