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• 1 2021-06-02T17:59:00-04:00 "The grass suffers most..." 4 Annotation: Grace Acan shares a local saying and an original illustration by Lorenzo Seravalle is paired with the audio recording of Acan to visualize the saying. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "After reading Ismael Beah's book I realized he went through like, like more than I thought had gone through because he was a boy and he had to go like, face danger every other time and he escaped several things while he was in the battlefield with the gun fighting. I compared my life. I didn't physically go to the battle, but I was there. There's a proverb in our local language that says 'when two elephants are fighting it is the grass around them that suffers.' So I was just suffering there like that. So wherever there was battle I would be running for my life and to make sure I'm alive. So that was the difference. Ismael Beah was physically there, hum in the battle engaged sometimes, sometimes he has to run as well. But for my case, I was yeah not physically [in the battlefield] but I was there [in danger], you know? That was the difference." plain 2022-08-29T15:51:07-04:00