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Somaliland's Lovesick Baker And The Girl He Never Had

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By Gwen Thompkins Verified
| saxafimedia.com
The complete piece is as follows: Somaliland’s Lovesick Baker and the Girl He Never Had Lovesick. That word best describes one of Somaliland’s most celebrated modern poets. Elmi Bodheri was a poor baker who is said to be the first Somali man to die from love. His poems, written in the 1930s and early 1940s, are the stuff of legend in Somaliland, and Bodheri and his beloved are household names. It’s an age-old story: a poet meets a girl. The poet loses the girl.
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Growing Up Andra Day

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By Gwen Thompkins Verified
| L’Officiel Monaco Verified
Moscow Fashion Week has once again made a dazzling impact, captivating a remarkable 65,000 attendees during its six-day extravaganza from October 4 to 9 at the Central Exhibition Hall ‘Manege.’ This year, the event showcased the creativity and talent of about 200 designers from 41 cities across Russia, alongside international brands from countries such as China, the United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, and India.
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Returning Home to a 'New' New Orleans

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By Gwen Thompkins Verified
| KVPR-FM (Fresno, CA) Verified
The most often repeated line in the new New Orleans is, by far, "How'd you make out?" My friend Jim Varney told me that before I arrived. That's our way of asking people whether they still have a home, whether anyone they know or love was lost in the floodwater, whether they still have a job and whether they will be coming back to stay. These questions are just too hard to ask outright. So we just say -- "How'd you make out?" Most of New Orleans is gone for the moment.
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