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April 19, 2007

I just found out about Julia Campbell’s death from Theresa’s blog. She was a Peace Corps volunteer working in the Philippines for the past two years. She was set to go home in June but she went missing last April 8 and was found in a dry creek yesterday morning.

Julia Campbell

Is it weird and utterly pathetic to cry for a perfect stranger? Cause I did.

Like Theresa, I feel ashamed and angered. At the person/people who did this to her. At the unfairness of it all. A person drops everything she has ever known to help people she doesn’t know in a poor, and dangerous (that is pretty much established, no?) country, and this is what she gets.

She was a martyr.

I don’t know if I can be like her.

Sometimes, I feel guilty for wanting to be anything less.

Written by Ann · Filed Under Current Events 

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