Noam like Gnome

He overheard me finding my way in conversation with an Ethiopian teenager about her religion and, trying to be helpful, interrupted... 
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I caught Minjeong Kim on her very first day off...

Is it possible that South Koreans received a memo to descend upon Stone Mountain in the last 24 hours? In less than a day, I not only met... 
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Tonight on this last day of Ramadan, Muslims everywhere are celebrating Eid al-Fitr...

Tonight on this last day of Ramadan, Muslims everywhere are celebrating Eid al-Fitr and enjoying big feasts... 
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Italian Opera Sung in Korean on Stone Mountain

This evening I encountered 45 year-old Chang Hun from Gwangju, South Korea, singing "Nessun Dorma" ("None Shall Sleep") from Puccini's opera Turandoat down Stone Mountain. 
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Keding Deng from South Sudan

Tonight I met 27 year-old Keding Deng from South Sudan and truly can't wait to share some of her brave and inspiring story over at I Am The Mountain.  
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Jumping Germans

I admit to being more excited than usual overhearing them speak German at the mountain that afternoon. About a week before... 
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Upward Bound

These high school students from the Moraine Valley outside of Chicago are participants in the federally-funded Upward Bound Program. 
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If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to Stone Mountain...

Firouza and her children had been fasting all day when I met them, and Sakina’s husband... 
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