"So when I wrote that song, everywhere I went to perform in any refugee camp people, would cry and always sit and talk. Because as you live, you cannot keep your problems to yourself."
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Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change using music to heal in Southwest Philly, By By Elisabeth Perez-Luna, retrieved on June 23, 2014
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