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Since I arrived in Macedonia, I have felt a small shift inside me. It might be the way people open me their doors without hesitation,...

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Dear reader, birds chirping on the trees, water rippling down the mountain, the wind is brushing through the trees and you feel the warmness of...

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I remember when I got my first email with an invitation to write for VOICES. I was still at home, in Poland, impatiently waiting for...

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