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bubble wrap
This kid was my saving grace sometimes. Always eating, always smiling, and continuously screaming my name.
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Brick by Brick
Turning bricks and hoping they would dry before the next rain. A community library was the end result.
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The Fan Milk Man
This photo goes along with my attached story
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Dropping the Fan Milk Man
I am an avid road cyclist have ridden as much as 105 miles in day, and when I was racing, I rode as much as 5,000 miles in a year. I like to think that I can ride pretty fast. In Benin Peace Corps gave all volunteers a fairly nice Trek mountain bike to use to get around on since we didn’t have a motorcycle or a car. It was so hot in Benin that I couldn’t really enjoy riding for exercise, so I was a little out of shape. I was still riding a lot for transportation purposes, so ...
