A prayer for the Sudan I: "moros y cristianos"

... I forced myself to turn and look into the sea of eyes, many looking intently, curiously, skeptically at us, at me. ... The space between us was defined by so much more than the deceptively low banister over which we studied each other. A millennium of wall-building is not reversed in a weekend visit, no matter how sincere. I breathed out a prayer for the God-sized task facing us all.

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