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Apr 07, 2009 her new book, the blue sweater, stresses sustainable bottomup solutions over traditional topdown aid. Luckily for me, i was traveling with a kindle full of reading and one actual book, jacqueline novogratzs the blue sweater. Eleven years later in africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. Two brothers finishing up an evening of fun, run into the local gang, tragedy ending in a murder and suicide. Her stories are collected and published in her book, the blue sweater. The blue sweater has many of those, set in locations and circumstances that bear little resemble to silicon valley. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Poverty, disease and death are the major issues that the world deals with everyday. Also set sale alerts and shop exclusive offers only on shopstyle.
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