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Cambodia

It has been three and a half weeks since my husband and I returned from two months in the U.K. and Europe and one month in Cambodia. Almost 8 years ago, myself and three others founded Love146 an international human rights organization which combats child sex slavery and exploitation and cares for survivors. Unfortunately, I…

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For you incurable fanatics

“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the Trade’s wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.” “If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently…

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The Journey

“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do,…

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