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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 12:35:35 EDT Strypey

   Today, when I found out the person who planned the mosque shooting had planned to do it in #Ōtepoti (#Dunedin), I thought of the Syrian men who carted away all our unwanted furniture when we left town, sharing it with other families, who had also fled the violence engulfing their home and made a new one in #Aotearoa, #New Zealand. I thought of the scarves my wife gave them, for their wives and daughters. I remembered how much they smiled, as they struggled with their new English to thank us.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 12:38:16 EDT Strypey

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      Finally, the full horror of what happened yesterday in Ōtautahi, in Christchurch, in a city I spent years living in, broke the dam of my shock and disbelief, and I cried.
      #KiaKahaChristchurch