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Elena Tucker
3 min readMay 19, 2023
Photo by Olga ga on Unsplash

A Worthy Cause

A long time ago, when I was young and impressionable (I think I was 20 at the time), I read a newspaper headline and then the article below. I don’t remember the article, because I was so disappointed in it. You see, I was very tired, and misread the headline. What it was, was two headlines, separated by a thin vertical line, the first headline reading, “Refugees sail on a leaking boat,” and the second, next to…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.