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When survival and humor are inextricably linked

My Rwandan mother's stories about her childhood are objectively hilarious but they're also about surviving genocide and I don't know how to hold both truths.

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The comedy that sustained your family through unthinkable circumstances challenges simple categories of appropriate emotional responses.

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