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The search for his life’s playlist led refugee survivor Mathias Siri across these words: “If I could only find a note to make you understand . . .” Like most of the students in Diane Mora’s East High School classroom in Kansas City, Mathias has a refugee’s story — from his family’s flight from war in Congo to hard years in a camp in Tanzania, then relief in a strange new world in America.
Here they came, bringing their hidden pain with them. Tristin Stewart, a 29-year-old father from Harrisonville. Tamara Sigars, a 44-year-old cancer survivor from Kansas City. Brandi Wheeler, a 35-year-old new college graduate from Olathe. And hundreds more, in person or online, all hoping to shed criminal records that have kept them shadowed far too long in their communities’ plain sight.
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