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Rigoberta Menchu Quotes: I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.
         

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.


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