Be a nurse in strange land

On a lazy October afternoon, the air crisp with autumn, Ler Bweh, a 25-year-old Karen refugee from Burma, lay on his stomach in his apartment, assembling a map-of-the-world puzzle. Slight and almost ethereal, with moist caramel skin and a diffident demeanor, Ler Bweh had been a geography teacher in the Mae La refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. This fall, he was resettled to Waterbury, along with... 

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Moments like these is what keeps a dozen or so locals volunteering tirelessly to help out Waterbury’s Karen refugees

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and West Main Street, mushroom-shaped satellite TV dishes point hungrily westward and windows... 

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where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water.

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and West Main Street, mushroom-shaped satellite TV dishes point hungrily westward and windows... 

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