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Mariam Allawiya, 60 (left), and Kafa Wehbe, 67, sit together in a vacant apartment building in central Beirut after they were displaced from southern Lebanon by Israel's current invasion. They both grew up in southern Lebanon, and Allawiya's son married Wehbe's daughter.
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Born in south Lebanon, displaced to Beirut, two grandmothers reflect on Israeli invasions
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They grew up amid olive groves in southern Lebanon. The son of one married the other's daughter. Now they're living temporarily in a vacant building in central Beirut, displaced many times.
A pair of blue and gold macaws visit Mabel Carnago's apartment in Caracas.
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Caracas' iconic macaws threatened by vanishing palm trees
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MaddyChristine Hope Brokopp weaves the bottom of a burial tray. Brokopp enlisted her friends to weave her tray after a cancer diagnosis.
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She invited her friends to come together to make her casket
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