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January 28, 2007
Freudian Slip
I'm trawling through room ads on Gumtree, and just saw one which says 'Emasculate condition!' - ouch!!! :)
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January 19, 2007
That Road's Meant To Be Safe
From http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/008735.html
Yarmouth woman killed in Guatemala crash
A woman from Yarmouth who started an organization to help destitute children living in the dumps of Guatemala City has died in car accident.
Hanley Denning, founder of Safe Passage, was killed Thursday as she rode with a driver from Guatemala City to Antigua, where the educational program she started had a residential school. The car she was in apparently collided with a fast-moving truck on a narrow, paved road, said a spokesman for the organization.
Denning started Safe Passage in 1999 when she was just 29 after visiting Guatemala to study Spanish and experiencing the harsh living conditions of children who scavenged for food and anything else of value in the city’s sprawling dump.
She sold her car and computer to start the program, which now educates some 600 children.
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She tried to hire my mother a few years ago, and called her a few weeks ago while my mother was in the States... this is one of those times when Guatemalan life seems to be all about those who die.
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