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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.

Leslie Cockburn

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Nachdem ich als Student in Yale Graham Greene und Joseph Conrad gelesen hatte, wollte ich in der Welt leben, die sie in ihren Büchern festgehalten haben. Ich hatte einige Erfahrungen in Afrika gemacht. Diese Art von Abenteuer zog mich an.

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