{"id":17457,"date":"2016-06-10T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17457"},"modified":"2016-06-10T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:50:16","slug":"stateless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17457","title":{"rendered":"Stateless"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning in Paris I had breakfast with a woman who is stateless. That is, she is not a citizen of any country. In particular, she is a political refugee from Western Saraha.<\/p>\n

I think this may have been the first time I had ever personally met a Muslim refugee, although of course a vast number of them are out there. I was pleased to find her very warm hearted, extremely perceptive and rather brilliant. She was also clearly enjoying the open-mindedness of the people she was meeting in Paris.<\/p>\n

And I wasn’t the only one who was having an exotic experience. At one point she reached across the table, shook my hand, and said “This is the first time I am having breakfast with a Jew.” She seemed to be thoroughly delighted by this.<\/p>\n

It was also the first time I had ever seen the passport of a stateless person. With her permission, I took a photo of the cover:<\/p>\n

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I wish everyone were as centered as this woman is. I guess it makes sense: When you have been deprived of any place on earth to call home, you learn to be highly grounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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